Greek Quotes - Page 18

• Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.107, University of Illinois Press

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• I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error." The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement, amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason.

  Francis Galton

  Math, Errors, Self

  Natural Inheritance Normal Variability (p. 66)

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• What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

  Edward Bond

  Literature, Able, Humans

  "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.

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• What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh."

  Isaac Newton

  Latin, Years, Atheism

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• The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, London Olympics, Debt

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• Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

  Gilbert Murray

  Reading, Literature, Ancient

  Aristotle, Gilbert Murray (1920). “On the Art of Poetry”, p.3, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this divisionIt is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them

  Herodotus

  Stars, Years, Names

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• From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Zodiac, Names, Architecture

  H. P. Blavatsky, Annie Besant (2011). “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

  Mark Dacascos

  Mother, Father, Names

  "Mark Dacascos Discusses Brotherhood Of The Wolf". Interview with Scott B., www.ign.com. January 12, 2002.

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• The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied; nevertheless, because all elements of a synergetic system support one another, they also support the whole.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Goal, Support, Atmosphere

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• I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Drama, Thinking, Epic

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• In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Children, Justice

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1154, Delphi Classics

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• The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Religious, Atheist, Kissing

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• the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.

  George Eliot

  Christian, Attitude, Lying

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• It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant."
  [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Past, Males, Said

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• It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

  James Russell Lowell

  Army, March, Brevity

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: First [-second] series”, p.239

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• Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching, should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors, then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.

  Martin Luther

  Latin, Simple, Doctors

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• It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world.

  Toni Morrison

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
  [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

  Juvenal

  Heaven, Hunger, Hungry

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• Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

  John Milton

  Children, Book, Winning

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.468

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• On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Drama, Reality, One Day

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.60

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• Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
  The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

  Homer

  Men, Heaven, Woe

  Homer (1805). “The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc”, p.165

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• Praise me not too much,
  Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
  Who know me.

  Homer

  Too Much, Blame, Praise

  Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.314

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• Know thyself.
  [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

  Solon

  Knowledge, Know Thyself, Knows

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• I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers.

  Sara Coleridge

  Flower, Ideas, Mind

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.169

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