“If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but… — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
“We certainly face, as did the ancient Greeks, the problem of oligarchy—ever more threatening as globalization increases differences in wealth.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“Does anyone here speak English? Or even Ancient Greek? — A very lost Marcus Brody” — Rob MacGregor Copy Share Image
Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“ancient Greek word mousikē, from which the English word music is derived, means any art over which the Muses presided, hence included… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me.… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
These three qualities I recommend to you; tenacity, goodness, and intelligence. They are as valuable today as they were in the time… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“Equilibrium is the state of death, only chaos produces life The Ancient Greeks have been driven to extinction by too much search… — Stéphane Lupasco Copy Share Image
Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I enjoyed the thought that hovering behind my work is a unifying belief system, just as there is behind Egyptian or Ancient… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“After he cut off their genitals, Chronos threw them into the sea, where they floated in a "white foam." Out of this… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks worshipped the human capacity for insight. Scott Berkun, in examining the topic of innovation, pointed out that the Greek… — Gary Klein Copy Share Image
“Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“Inbreeding significantly increased the risks of miscarriage and child mortality, and the lack of medical knowledge at the time added to the… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals… — Tommy Tenney Copy Share Image
“We can talk about our dreams all night, Lisette. We can talk forever, for the rest of our lives, living one adventure… — Kasey Michaels Copy Share Image
“Sisyphus cheated death,” Nico explained. “First he chained up Thanatos, the reaper of souls, so no one could die. Then when Thanatos… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Zero has had a long history. The Babylonians invented the concept of zero; the ancient Greeks debated it in lofty terms (how… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Why does the ego play roles? Because of one unexamined assumption, one fundamental error, one unconscious thought. That thought is: I am… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“And that discovery would betray the closely guarded secret of modern culture to the laughter of the world. For we moderns have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“All the demons of Hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures. No it's not fair, but one man's god is another… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It was Ephialtes, in fact, who initiated democratic reforms that involved paying citizens for jury service. Shortly afterwards, he was assassinated (allegedly… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“Come on,” I said. “Let’s reconnect this bad boy.” Getting the dragon’s head to the bottom was easy. It tumbled right down… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally… — Sarah Schmelling Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to… — David Antin Copy Share Image
The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating… — Nevill Drury Copy Share Image
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
