There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture. — Nicholas Biddle Copy Share Image
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate. — Sandra Boynton Copy Share Image
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.” — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Demaratus, being asked in a troublesome manner by an importunate fellow, Who was the best man in Lacedaemon? answered at last, 'He,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Hero,” he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father’s. “Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks… — Sulari Gentill Copy Share Image
“The signs of the old flame, I know them well. I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down… — Virgil Copy Share Image
I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation.… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact… — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic." That REALLY didn't sound good. "What do you mean?" I asked. "what… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him… — Rita Levi-Montalcini 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
I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals… — Tommy Tenney 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
Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries,… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
“I left them to it, the pointing of fingers on maps, the tracing of mountain villages, the tracks and contours on maps… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I favor a form of cosmopolitanism that takes nations very seriously, particularly because of the role of national law in sustaining or,… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
