Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. — John Major Copy Share Image
“I’ve always liked it about the Greeks that they kept the violence off the stage.” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone. — Evangelos Venizelos Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun.” — Marion G. Harmon Copy Share Image
You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?" — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
“He has been known to devour men.” “He’s a cannibal?” Cadmus asked in horror. “Well, not really,” Daemon replied. “He is a… — Sulari Gentill Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked,… — Tim Birkhead Copy Share Image
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
“The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an… — Pierre Simon De Laplace Copy Share Image
“In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
“Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“I have read in some of the old histories that in early times the Greeks did not know how to write until… — Ibn Al-Nadim Copy Share Image
I am thrilled to return as Honorary Captain of the GREEKs for HBCUs Team. I reflect fondly on my days at Florida… — T'Keyah Crystal Keymah Copy Share Image
“You know, Mac,”Cadmus said still looking out the window. “We may have to work on the way we tell our story …apparently… — Sulari Gentill Copy Share Image
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply… — Max Müller Copy Share Image
“The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism. But monotheism existed long before… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image
“And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances,… — Joseph Kastein Copy Share Image
“In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; they knew that labor as… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
