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> [No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/no-facts-however-indubitably-detected-no-effort-of-reason-however/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

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> [There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/there-is-a-field-where-all-wonderful-perfections-of-microscope-and/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

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## Other authors on Bach

## More by Edith Hamilton

> [Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/poetry-and-preaching-do-not-go-well-together-when-the-preacher-mounts/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

> [When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/when-faith-is-supported-by-facts-or-by-logic-it-ceases-to-be-faith/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

> [Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/ages-of-faith-and-of-unbelief-are-always-said-to-mark-the-course-of/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

> [None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/none-so-good-that-he-has-no-faults-none-so-wicked-that-he-is-worth/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

> [To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/to-be-able-to-be-caught-up-into-the-world-of-thought-that-is-educated/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

> [Convention, so often a mask for injustice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/convention-so-often-a-mask-for-injustice/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

> [Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/myths-are-early-science-the-result-of-men-s-first-trying-to-explain/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

> [A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/a-people-s-literature-is-the-great-textbook-for-real-knowledge-of/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

> [“He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/he-drew-iron-tears-down-pluto-s-cheek-and-make-hell-grant-what-love/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

> [Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/mind-and-spirit-together-make-up-that-which-separates-us-from-the/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

> [It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/it-has-always-seemed-strange-to-me-that-in-our-endless-discussions/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

> [When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/when-we-speak-of-beauty-we-re-speaking-of-something-we-re-more-or/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

> [Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/love-however-cannot-be-forbidden-the-more-that-flame-is-covered-up/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

> [In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/in-theology-the-conservative-temper-tends-to-formalism/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

> [The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/the-old-testament-is-the-record-of-men-s-conviction-that-god-speaks/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

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