All Edith Hamilton Quotes
- So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from… Air
- When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. Athens
- When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built… Advice
- The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. Fullness
- Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. Counter
- It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work. Dreary
- Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the… Animal
- There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something… Beauty
- Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables,… Art
- A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no… Day
- None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. Alchemy
- It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything.… Country
- Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. Art
- Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes… Alone
- The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind. Allegiance
- To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit... Beautiful
- Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom. Every Man
- There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which… All
- The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and no farther. We… All
- When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. Chaos
- The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the… All
- A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait. Exaggeration
- No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful. Beautiful
- The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in… Critics
- When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith. Ceases