Greek Quotes - Page 10

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato, Eye, Reality

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I was seeing this girl and she wanted to get more serious. But I wasn't ready to, I had just gotten out of a difficult relationship before that. So I said to her, 'Listen, you have to understand something. Relationships are like eyebrows. It's better when there's a space between them.' And that's coming from a Greek guy.

Demetri Martin

Funny, Girl, Humor

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Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

Albert Einstein

Science, Discovery, Two

Letter to J.S. Switzer on April 23, 1953. "The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry". Book by H. Floris Cohen, p. 234, 1994.

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The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to move to the same beat. The athlete wanted to check what has been described as the ultimate workout. The romantic craved seeing if the quirkiness of the sport - there is after all, little practical value to oarsmanship in the postindustrial age - stirred his blood.

Barry S. Strauss

Sports, Workout, Moving

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It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.

Barry S. Strauss

Sports, Intelligent, Sea

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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Simple, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

Real, Math, Understanding

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A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and have a Coke in the confectionery store. It is run by a Greek, as it used to be, but whether the same Greek or another I would not know. He does not recognize me, nor I him. Only the smell of his place is familiar, syrupy with old delights, as if the ghost of my first banana split had come close to breathe on me.

Wallace Stegner

Running, Smell, Tree

Wallace Stegner (2000). “Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier”, p.29, Penguin

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In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

Winston Churchill

Education, Latin, Writing

Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Architecture, Geometry, Flowering

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The word crisis- is from the Greek, meaning a moment to decide.- The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.

Jill Purce

Decision, Growth, Next

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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Men, Age

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

Julius Streicher

Book, Christianity, Clergymen

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This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.

Brewster Kahle

Education, Learning, Men

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Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."

Ken Burns

Mean, Etymology, Enthusiasm

"Ken Burns to Stanford Grads: Trump Is 'an Insult to Our History'". time.com. June 13, 2016.

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The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

Alan Watts

Mean, Missing, Here And Now

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When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

Eric Hoffer

Youth, God Love, Lord

Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly. In ancient Greek the word “chaos” means “gaping void” or “yawning emptiness.” The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema.

Werner Herzog

Art, Mean, Yawning

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Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

Joseph Pilates

Men, Mind, Littles

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The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.

Nicole Kidman

Love, Philosopher, Longing

"Beyonce's over-the-top Super Bowl demands; Sean Lennon's nasty breakup; Barrymore, 'Friend of the UN'". The Daily Dish, www.sfgate.com. February 06, 2004.

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The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?

Swami Vivekananda

Dog, Art, Real

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2219, Manonmani Publishers

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I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

Edward Wilmot Blyden

Race, Century, Periods

Edward Wilmot Blyden (1976). “Selected Works of Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden”

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As Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

Maryrose Wood

Interesting, Waiting, Tragedy

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II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

Mads Mikkelsen

Littles, Far Away, Nordic

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For me, having greek yogurt and some granola is the perfect start-up breakfast because it has many benefits. Its filling, healthy and gives me energy to start my day.

Shantel VanSanten

Greek Yogurt, Giving, Perfect

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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