Greek Quotes - Page 22

• It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling-block.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Christian, Appreciation, Block

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

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• Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

  Mark Twain

  Shoes, Naked, Olympics

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• Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Long, Slavery

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.56, Routledge

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• There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Plato, Book, Bed

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.24, e-artnow

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• It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Flames, Voice, Bankers

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were contrived, and by whom they were also contrasted and placed in opposition, as denoting two mutually conflicting and mutually inconsistent ideas. ... [this fallacy] based on a double system of natural laws retarded for centuries the development of physical science, notably mechanics.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Law, Practice, Ideas

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• I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Doe, Young

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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• This is a very special Greek kind of socialist, all the social democratic parties in Europe are against this idea and I think that the dividing line today in the Greek political system is not the centre right or socialist, the real dividing line is between those parties and those political forces who really believe that Greece should stay in the Eurozone and make the efforts and change, and make the reforms and change the old and Mr Tsipras who is really resisting any kind of change in Greece.

  Dora Bakoyannis

  Real, Party, Believe

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The interesting thing is that the 82% of the Greeks do not want to abandon the Euro. They really believe that there might be some kind of magical way where we could stay in the Eurozone but do not do our homework. This is not possible. So what we are trying to do is explain, you know, we in Greece invented democracy but we also invented at the same time populism.

  Dora Bakoyannis

  Believe, Interesting, Trying

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We are neck and neck but there will be a very - it will be a very tough campaign in the last ten days. We must be very open and sincere with the Greek people. They should know what they could really expect. I think all of these old political logic is dead. We have to be honest, open and determined to get the Greeks out of this crisis.

  Dora Bakoyannis

  Thinking, People, Political

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• For the liver, what's so interesting is that there's no stem cell in the liver. So the normal liver actually can regenerate. It's one of the only organs in the human body that can do this, and we've known this since the time of Greek mythology.

  Sangeeta N. Bhatia

  Cells, Interesting, Body

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the Trojan War and decided that the Greeks were really a bunch of frauds with their tricky horses and the terrible things they did, stealing one another's wives, and so on, so at that very early age, I re-wrote the ending of the Iliad so that the Trojans won. And boy, Achilles and Ajax got what they wanted, believe me. And thereafter, at frequent intervals, I would write something. It was really quite extraordinary. Never of very high merit, but the daringness of it was.

  James A. Michener

  Horse, Children, War

  "Storytelling Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 10, 1991.

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• Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

  Carl Sagan

  Humanity, Library, World

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13]". TV series, 1990.

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• The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.

  Charles Darwin

  Europe, Civilization, People

  Charles Darwin (2004). “Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.120, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...

  Hyman Rickover

  Strong, Real, Long

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.

  Troy Polamalu

  Warrior, Hair, Names

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• You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Humanity, Etc, Whole

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• Without Greek studies there is no education.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Study

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• The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.

  Sophocles

  Crush, Gears, Combat

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• The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

  Stella Adler

  Mean, Theatre, Acting

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.29, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

  Gilbert Murray

  Limits, Facts, Modern

  Aristotle, Gilbert Murray (1920). “On the Art of Poetry”, p.10, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• If you read Herodotus, the first Greek historian 2,500 years ago, he was talking about that - about people mixing with other people. Sometimes it produces great societies. Sometimes it triggers war. But, we're not going to change that. I don't think so. We're living in nations that are state nations and countries.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

  Tim Sandlin

  Mean, Catharsis, Ancient

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• I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Feelings, Naked, Stories

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• These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

  Victor Hugo

  Attitude, Hands, Black

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