All Edith Hamilton Quotes
- 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
- We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to… Able
- All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet All
- Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be… Broken
- Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was… Always Find
- The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. Certain
- ..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton Cannot Leave
- The mind knows only what lies near the heart. Heart
- I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the… Act
- He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life. Beside
- Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom) Each
- Love cannot live where there is no trust. Bad Relationship
- ...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of… Beautiful
- Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three All
- None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught. Faults
- Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. Active