Greek Quotes - Page 10

The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.

Nicole Kidman

Love, Philosopher, Longing

"Beyonce's over-the-top Super Bowl demands; Sean Lennon's nasty breakup; Barrymore, 'Friend of the UN'". The Daily Dish, www.sfgate.com. February 06, 2004.

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I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

Edward Wilmot Blyden

Race, Century, Periods

Edward Wilmot Blyden (1976). “Selected Works of Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden”

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As Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

Maryrose Wood

Interesting, Waiting, Tragedy

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Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.

Christopher Hitchens

Inspiration, Reading, Home

"Hitch-22". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. 2010.

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The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same as the Greek formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding through the Son, fell ill and died. An unkind scholar remarked that after muddling his prepositions what else could he decently do?

Steven Runciman

Latin, Son, Ghost

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We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it will embrace, outside of (in addition to) the general and elementary curriculum, all branches of the classical high school, which are necessary for a true Christian and scientific education, such as: Religion, the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, French and English languages; History, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, natural history, Introduction to Philosophy, Music, and Drawing.

C. F. W. Walther

Christian, Philosophy, Latin

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It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks

Miriam

Entering, Muse, Profession

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We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.

Thomas Bulfinch

Country, Easter, Real

Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Stories of Gods and Heroes”, p.6, Thomas Bulfinch

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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

Ambrose Bierce

Kindness, Peculiar, Coffins

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.208, University of Georgia Press

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That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

Rajneesh

Trying, Experience, Synthesis

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The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

Horace

Art, Genius, Phrases

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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.

Jean Baudrillard

Laughter, Taken, Weather

Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.49, Verso

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Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.

Richard Ballantine

Perfect, Mind, Culture

Richard Ballantine, Richard Grant (1998). “Ultimate Bicycle Book”, Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books

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Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and religious healers, the imagination has been used to diagnose disease.

Jeanne Achterberg

Religious, Healing, Medicine

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I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.

John Ruskin

Science, Wish, Nomenclature

John Ruskin (1800). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture: Also, Lectures on Architecture and Painting; The Study of Architecture; Sesame and Lilies; Unto this Last; The Queen of the Air; The Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century”

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The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

Leland Ryken

Art, Real, Way

Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.60, Shaw Books

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My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.

Misty May-Treanor

Greek Yogurt, Honey, My Favorite

"Olympic appetites: how 8 top athletes eat to win" by Michelle Edelbaum, www.eatingwell.com. July 10, 2012.

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If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.

Michael Steinhardt

Beautiful, Museums, Years

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And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

Melina Mercouri

Invasion, Subjugation, Turkish

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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

Joseph Addison

Latin, Mets, Passages

Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.437

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Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a geographical expedition than a military campaign. .... a Greek army had reached what they regarded as the end of the earth. They had pitted themselves against the ultimate as bravely as the yogins had struggled to break through the limits of the human psyche. Where mystics had conquered interior space, Alexander explored the farthest reaches of the physical world. .... like many of the axial sages, he was constantly 'straining after more'.

Karen Armstrong

Military, Army, Years

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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Struggle, Mean, Men

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I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest.

LeRoy Neiman

Athlete, Past, Years

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Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.

Allan Bloom

Philosopher, Forget, Professors

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Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are

Arthur Koestler

Laughter, Tragedy, Comedy

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