“Did you hear the story of Socrates? He was a philosopher in ancient Greece, so they killed him.” — Troy DeNuthe Copy Share Image
The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“Our journey is one of discovery on Sicily. Like the past Greek writers.orators,historians and philosophers we are all searching for answers on… — Daniel Peter Buckley Copy Share Image
“Now any King who wants to call himself my equal wherever I went let him go." Sargon the Great / Enheduanna from… — Daniel Peter Buckley Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory” was… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
“I think of myself as a political idiot. Idiot, in ancient Greece, denoted a common person without access to knowledge and information--all… — Jasmina Tešanović Copy Share Image
“But no city-state ever solved the problem of incorporating new territories and new populations into its existing structure, or involving really large… — Joseph Reese Strayer Copy Share Image
I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa,… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty is a temptress. We may try our best to avoid her. But what is certain is that at some point of… — Richie Singh Copy Share Image
“Your daughter is gay? Where are all these gay people coming from? Gay friends. Gay daughters of friends. Gay sisters-in-law. Gay suspects.… — Dani Alexander Copy Share Image
“Western ‘civilisation’ has been based on the ideas of ancient Greece, where the concept of ‘democracy’ (government by the people) assumed that… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Periclean Greeks employed the term idiotis , without any connotation of stupidity or subnormality, to mean simply 'a person indifferent to public… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion… — Al Masudi Copy Share Image
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
“Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo… — Mario Livio Copy Share Image
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe… — Christopher Dawson 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
“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
“In ancient Greece, Socrates was known to place a premium on knowledge. When an acquaintance visited the philosopher and began, ‘Do you… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“It is no wonder that historians trace the birth of Western civilization to these jewels of the Aegean, Ionian, and Mediterranean seas.… — Laura Brooks 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
“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
“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
“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
The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or… — Jesse Owens 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 ancient Greece, throwing an apple at a woman was considered a MARRIAGE PROPOSAL. This tradition still continues - throw an apple… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
