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greek-philosopher
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. Socrates
greek degrees certain
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics. Donald Kagan
greek becoming might
Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate. Anaxagoras
greek matter firsts
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue. Simone Weil
greek wish tvs
I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne! Rick Riordan
greek together steam
The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.
greek language speak
Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love Rumi
greek envious divine
The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving. Stephen Fry
greek language failing
The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms. Thomas Szasz
divine empty falls happens human itself leaps life loses ocean river seeks
THE river of human life meanders along, through many a valley, leaps over many a cliff, loses itself in many a marsh and seeks to empty itself in the ocean of Divine Grace; though, what happens is that it falls into the undrinkable expanse of salt. Atharva Veda
divine effort great requiring
Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. James E. Faust
divine homer human information rather relating wrote
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things. Lactantius
divine humans
To divinise is human, to humanise is divine. Victor Hugo
divine concerned knows
You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.
divine dressed fact names number single thousand unity universal universe works
The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works. Said Nursi
divine faculty extremity
WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties. Henry David Thoreau
divine-order faithful literature
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. Muhammad Iqbal
divine life service
Service is divine - It makes life worthwhile. Sathya Baba