“Did you hear the story of Socrates? He was a philosopher in ancient Greece, so they killed him.” — Troy DeNuthe Copy Share Image
“I could inject a brick in each of my butt cheeks and then be like ancient Greece: a ruin. Only, I’d ask… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself. An enemy who has lost his temper & a… — Theo Papas Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, the word for “cook,” “butcher,” and “priest” was the same—mageiros—and the word shares an etymological root with “magic.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise! This I knew well, but had… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I'm either dressing like a rocker chick, or I'm looking like I just stepped out of ancient Greece! It all depends on… — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for… — Budd Schulberg Copy Share Image
“JOCASTA: So clear in this case were the oracles, so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say; what God discovers… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK?… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers...… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Do you know how marriage was defined in ancient Greece? Noel said in a calmer tone. Its really simple. A virgin goes… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Your religious beliefs typically depend on the community in which you were raised or live. The spiritual experiences of people in ancient… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
“With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the… — Athenagoras Copy Share Image
“CHORUS: You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One can see… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Hettites appeal to us not alone because of the influence they once exercised on the fortunes of the Chosen People, not alone… — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
“TEIRESIAS: I tell you, king, this man, this murderer (whom you have long declared you are in search of, indicting him in… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began, 'To… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
“[A historian] will more seriously deplore the loss of the Byzantine libraries, which were destroyed or scattered in the general confusion: one… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
“I tell you, because military training is not publicly recognised by the state, you must not make that an excuse for being… — Xenophon Memorabilia. 371BC Marchant translation Copy Share Image
“To the altars of the Great Mother, and later still to that of the Horned God, came those women who wanted children.… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
“Back in Ancient Greece when Xenophon first posed the economic question, ‘How should a household best manage its resources?’ he was literally… — Kate Raworth Copy Share Image
“The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Psychoanalysis and Greek mythology are two sides of the same medallion. To put it differently: without classical mythology, there would be no… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“You know better than anyone that nothing lasts. Nothing good. Nothing bad. Everything lives. Everything dies. Sometimes cities just fall into the… — C. Robert Cargill Copy Share Image
“Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about—the Saffron Shift. If… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Tragedy's language stresses that whatever is within us is obscure, many faceted, impossible to see. Performance gave this question of what is… — Ruth Padel Copy Share Image
I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The golden section was discovered by the Egyptians, and has been used in art and architecture, most commonly, during the classical ages… — Steven L. Griffing Copy Share Image
Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
![“In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively that the pots that really interested us were the pots that people had used in their everyday life, and we began to think - I mean, whether it was ancient Greece or…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/17d/warren-mackenzie-4654_ancient_in-looking-at-these-pots-at-the-field-mu_1294704.jpg)
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