Composition Quote by Anaxagoras

The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and…

— Anaxagoras

Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an…

— Anaxagoras

“All ancient philosophers, poets, and moralists agree that love is a striving, an aspiration of the “lower” toward the “higher,” the “unformed” toward the…

— Max Scheler

My Greekness was bound to come out of one orifice or another because I am Greek.

— Jamie Demetriou

“in order to fulfil his essence, Greek man must gather (legein) and save (sozein), catch up and preserve, what opens itself in its openness,…

— Barbara Bolt

“St. John,” I said, “I think you are al­most wicked to talk so. I am dis­posed to be as con­tent as a queen, and…

— Charlotte Brontë

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Greeks would, as it were, devote festivals to all their passions and evil natural inclinations… they took these human, all too human aspects…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We Greeks get married in circles, to impress upon ourselves the essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Until the blood from my pen runs dry, I shall worship the Greek body, the Greek mind, and the Greek soul. Until my tears…

— Pietros Maneos

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason,…

— Albert Camus

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another…

— Samuel Johnson