“The ancient greeks called all of those stars and planets in our night sky. "Wanderers." I don't think anyone has come up… — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
We reach a secondary road and - here comes the bonus - we pass the Temple of Neptune and Cerene, at Paestum,… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“Several times the ancient Greeks attempted to utilize democratic mass participation in governing their city-states, but each time it resulted in tyranny.… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Pollution is everywhere, in that ancient Greek sense of miasma: guilt experienced as abject body fluid, moral pollution defining what kinds of… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
I spent the first half of my career doing nothing but Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, ancient Greek. People ask me, Oh, are you… — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Most of us have been taught to think that we are either intelligent or we are not. But the definitions of intelligence… — Kevin Horsley Copy Share Image
In some ways, Lotus Eaters is a journey disguised as a party film; there's a circus in the movie, and there are… — Alexandra McGuinness Copy Share Image
“If you're looking for fine art or literature, you might want to read some stuff written by the Greeks. Because to create… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens… — Stanley Krippner Copy Share Image
“And horse-stealing,” said the Water Rat, adding his mite. “And impersonating a washerwoman, and defrauding the rails, and horse-stealing—or did I say… — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Taken together, it’s almost a sure sign. The letters float off the page when you read, right? That’s because your mind is… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Tulips, I thought, staring at the jumble of letters before me. Had the ancient Greeks known them under a different name, if… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“We long for experiences “of profound connection with others,” he writes, “of deep understanding of natural phenomena, of love, of being profoundly… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“The historian Cassiodorus believed that the selective destruction of Alaric, as regards the Greek monuments, was of good effect. Alaric had some… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“In capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favorable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“LOOK, I’M ONLY IN THIS FOR THE PIZZA. The publisher was like, “Oh, you did such a great job writing about the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Richard Feynman had to say this about energy in his 1961 lecture: “There is a fact, or if you wish, a law,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“A lesson I learned from this ancient [Greek] culture is the notion of megalopsychon (a term expressed in Aristotle’s ethics), a sense… — Kyle Eschenroeder Copy Share Image
“Ancient philosophy was framed by prodigies, Aristotle, Plato and Socrates. And even though their thoughts were deemed the aristocratic voice, they also… — Henry Phillips Copy Share Image
“Greek women were not allowed to be: free and untamed. In fact, Artemis is a bit of a paradox. On the one… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks," Bowman said, echoing his response to the Munich terror, "believed the Olympic arena so sacred they stopped their wars… — Kenny Moore Copy Share Image
In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
“One group of huge men from Congo and Ghana yelled insults at the beasts from the top of their lungs. They brandished… — Angela Orlowski-Peart Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek philosophers were blonde and blue-eyed and, even then, talked about how their race was mixed with others and how… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the… — Ken Blackwell Copy Share Image
“Did the Ancient Greeks ever write anything funny—like slapstick? I mean, I think I speak for everyone when I say that there’s… — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful… — Sarah Monette Copy Share Image
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their… — Cassius Dio Copy Share Image
“I cannot imagine a life without books. Without Father's stories of the ancient Greek gods and goddesses, without pirate stories and fairy… — Jessica Spotswood Copy Share Image
“Accents must have been pretty important in Ancient Greek, because a man called Herodian wrote a treatise in twenty-one books about them,… — Caroline Taggart Copy Share Image
Human beings have kicked around the concept of what individual happiness means for centuries, from the Bible to the ancient Greeks to… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
![“A lesson I learned from this ancient [Greek] culture is the notion of megalopsychon (a term expressed in Aristotle’s ethics), a sense of grandeur that was superseded by the Christian value of ‘humility.’ There is no word for it in Romance languages; in Arabic is called Shhm—best translated as…” quote by Kyle Eschenroeder](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/36d/kyle-eschenroeder-38281_ancient-greek_a-lesson-i-learned-from-this-ancient-gre_1934358.jpg)
