How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience . — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The uppermost idea with Hellenism is to see things as they really are; the uppermost ideas with Hebraism is conduct and obedience.Nothing… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“Greeks and Romans were anti-Mediterranean cultures, in the sense of being at odds with much of the political heritages of Persia, Egypt, and… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos , or the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
