Quotes about greek
greek useless language
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. Virginia Woolf
greek luck tragedy
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault. Werner Herzog
greek mouths esoteric
No word in our language not even "Socialism" has been employed more loosely than " Mysticism ." ... The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut... William Ralph Inge
greeks
The Greeks play very well on the counter, Claude Makelele
greek christianity
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts. Oliver Stone
greek playwright
The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.
greek age
Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.
greek originated time
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. Tom Stoppard
greek quality world
If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities. Neville Cardus
greek ready euro
Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro. Mario Monti
greek catholic church
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests. Pope Francis
greek shields empires
Come back with your shield - or on it Plutarch
greek doctrine narrative
Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical method of exegesis. By this, as Erdmann observes, the Bible narrative was found to contain a deeper, and particularly an allegorical interpretation, in addition to its literal interpretation; this was not conscious disingenuousness but a natural mode of amalgamating the Greek philosophic with the Hebraic doctrines. Philo
greek events human-experience
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event. Terence McKenna
greek architecture geometry
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry. Ralph Waldo Emerson
greek study
Without Greek studies there is no education. Leo Tolstoy
greek keds capitol
I always read the Capitol as f—ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s all happening. Lenny Kravitz
greek financial blame
Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response. Lawrence Summers
greek vex dutch
I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak! Lewis Carroll
greek heroic
A heroic nature is very Greek. Patrick Wilson
greek despair lines
Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not. Elizabeth Gilbert
greek comedy fraternity
I made 'Going Greek', which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000. Justin Zackham
greek enthusiasm definitions
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. Madame de Stael
greek tragedy said
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies. Edward Bond
greek able literature
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
greek theatre
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks
greek mind world
The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind. Edith Hamilton
greek no-trust hamilton
..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
greek mind excellence
The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
greek mind use
The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greeks said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.
greek training may
No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. Hermann Ebbinghaus
greek bitter satire
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem. John Dryden
greek black myth
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. John Major