Gilbert Murray Quotes

12 quotes in 283 categories

• The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom…
• The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck…
• It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a…
• A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine…
• The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It…
• Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
• Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written…
• Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be…
• Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
• The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
• The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
• Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by…

Browse Gilbert Murray Quotes by Category