Becoming Quote by Anaxagoras

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved…

— 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

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively…

— Lucas Papademos

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

— Jamie Demetriou

Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have…

— George Papandreou

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.

— Margaret Fuller

“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

“Nothing returns, nothing begins anew; it is never the same thing, and yet it seems always the same. For, if the days never return,…

— Remy de Gourmont

Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

— Leonardo da Vinci

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“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

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

— Samuel Rogers