Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was… — Mary Hesse Copy Share Image
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My mom is very structured. She gets up, she does her prayers, and she eats her oatmeal with blueberries and Greek yogurt,… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea.… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical… — Philo Copy Share Image
To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy. — Arsenio Hall Copy Share Image
The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity. — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Sandoz turned and accepted the book, looking at the spine. "Aeschylus?" Wordlessly, Guiuliani pointed out the passage, and Emilio studied it a… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
