The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
“You study any pretty democracy, from the ancient Greeks forward, and you'll see that the only way each system functions is with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I suppose so.” An oath was an oath, though I rather wondered if Hippocrates ever ran into this sort of situation himself.… — Diana Gabaldon 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
“Maybe this had been something like the colour blindness of the ancient Greeks, before words had ushered in vision - we do… — Jennifer duBois Copy Share Image
“We will have have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones; these shall vote by tombstones. It is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a… — Jok Church Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks told of a philosopher eating bread and lentils for dinner. He was approached by another man, who lived sumptuously… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Karl and Marthe held the embossed card gingerly. It was Hitler’s 1941 Christmas card, a photo of the Winged Victory of Samothrace,… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greek word for money, for currency, is 'nomisma.' It comes from the verb 'to imagine.'" "So money has value to… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“The pen didn’t look like much, just a regular cheap ballpoint, but when Percy uncapped it, it grew into a glowing bronze… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“On May 21, 1941, Camp de Schirmeck, Natzweiler-Struthof, located 31 miles southwest of Strasbourg in the Vosges Mountains, was opened as the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Modern architects and engineers are still trying to understand how the ancient Greeks were able to build the Parthenon in ten years… — Christopher Dunn 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
“The American experiment was based on the emergence in the second half of the eighteenth century of a fresh new possibility in… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Zoe—" I said. "Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady." A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my… — Rick Riordan The Titan's Curse Copy Share Image
“The associations get only richer and more intense when you realise that the very concept of truth - the cornerstone of philosophy… — Robert Rowland Smith Copy Share Image
“Mr. Ethan W. Barris is an engineer and architect of somerenown, and the second of the guest to arrive. He looks as… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course… — Colin Quinn 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
