Quote by Barbara Bolt

“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

“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

“Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I…

— Plato

“It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“they had a tradition of greater solidarity. Greek was hostile to Greek; Jew stood by Jew. Wherever a Jew went, he found men of…

— H.G. Wells

“Then Prometheus, in his perplexity as to what preservation he could devise, stole from Hephaestus and Athena wisdom in the arts together with fire…

— Plato

“Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part of us,…

— Louis de Bernières

“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

— Donna Tartt

“Lad of Athens, faithful be To thyself, And Mystery - All the rest is Perjury”

— Emily Dickinson

“Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

“Within certain limits terminology is always arbitrary. But the definition of being-true as unveiling, making manifest, is not an arbitrary, private invention of mine;…

— Martin Heidegger

A heroic nature is very Greek.

— Patrick Wilson