Edith Hamilton
Edith Hamilton
Edith Hamiltonwas an American educator and author who was "recognized as the greatest woman Classicist." She was 62 years old when The Greek Way, her first book, was published in 1930. It was instantly successful, and is the earliest expression of her belief in "the calm lucidity of the Greek mind" and "that the great thinkers of Athens were unsurpassed in their mastery of truth and enlightenment."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 August 1867
CountryUnited States of America
In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.
Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.
There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.
Convention, so often a mask for injustice ...