“Did you hear the story of Socrates? He was a philosopher in ancient Greece, so they killed him.” — Troy DeNuthe 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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 think the greatest truths, the ones that you find in every culture that has any sort of history of reflection of… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, the earth was personified as a mysterious goddess called Gaia. A cosmic, procreative womb who emerged out of the… — Kris Waldherr Copy Share Image
“And it was you who created us. The notion of male homosexuality didn’t exist in ancient Greece. Socrates could bugger Alcibiades without… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint,… — Henry David Thoreau 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
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I have never met an intelligent optimist. That is not to say I think pessimism makes you intelligent, but I have always… — Howard Jacobson 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
“I like to stay a part of that stuff that don’t change. Actually, it’s not that difficult - people still love and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, some people did that for a living. They would just sit on a tree branch or a stone bench… — Patric Juillet Copy Share Image
“What is a medium like telepresence but the extension--no, the very definition--of ourselves? Are we, who live things at a distance, the… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when… — Rebecca Goldstein 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
“Don't you remember what your grandfather used to say? That thing about pots and people?" "That pots were like people," Alex replied… — Julia Wills 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
“[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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
![“[A historian] will more seriously deplore the loss of the Byzantine libraries, which were destroyed or scattered in the general confusion: one hundred and twenty thousand manuscripts are said to have disappeared; ten volumes might be purchased for a single ducat; and the same ignominious price…” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e5/edward-gibbon-710_ancient-greece_a-historian-will-more-seriously-deplore_638477.png)
