The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks who created the magnificent sculptures and structures were the same people who could be utterly cruel and barbaric.” — Julia Vickers Copy Share Image
Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“This approach shares an assumption, one dating from the ancient Greeks, that human reasoning can be a source of knowledge.” — Peter V. Rabins Copy Share Image
“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
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind… — John F. Kennedy 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
The technological revolution is itself a direct descendant of the Ancient Greeks' historia, and the web is populated by young people who… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he will say, ‘That was an excellent idea the ancient Greeks had, of abandoning female infants on a mountainside. Why was… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. ‘All men make mistakes,’ said the ancient Greek Sophocles. ‘But a good… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didnt see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I remember holding my face to the wind when Katharine died, feeling the air, the coolness and fluidity, the urgency. Every day,… — Random House Canada Copy Share Image
“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“Hippocrates, the ancient Greek doctor, concluded in the fourth century B.C. that pathological anxiety was a straightforward biological and medical problem. “If… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together… — Janet Lembke Copy Share Image
“but most scholars today believe that ancient Greek worship of her is most closely tied to the ancient Phoenician goddess of love… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“You’ve saved your money and bought a ticket to Fashion Week in Milan. All the world’s great clothing designers will be showing… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
“Two centuries ago, Napoleon warned, “Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Today China has awakened, and the… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
“Hermes's eyes twinkled. "Martha, may I have the first package, please?" Martha opened her mouth ... and kept opening it until it… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Atheism ... goes back to the Ancient Greek (a — a negative prefix, theos — god), evidencing the antiquity of the outlook… — Valerii A. Kuvakin Copy Share Image
“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm… — Music Copy Share Image
“It’s like we've been flung back in time," he said. "Here we are in the Stone Age, knowing all these great things… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“There have been ancient ships found with some almost unbelievable planking styles that helped make the ship structurally sound, lighter, and even… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“If ‘myth’ is a slippery term, so is ‘classical’. It is common shorthand for ‘ancient Greek and Roman’. But this shorthand has… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. —HIPPOCRATES, ANCIENT GREEK FOUNDER OF THE… — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead… — Linda Barnes Copy Share Image
My father loved democracy. He loved the ancient Greeks because they invented democracy, and he shared their contempt for those who refused… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Sleeter Bull,* the author of the 1951 book Meat for the Table, claims the ancient Greeks had a taste for udders. Very… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image