Deep thinking Quote by Camille Paglia

Odysseus sees reality as the situation or problem before him; Achilles sees it as something in himself, and the problem is to identify himself…

— Cedric H Whitman

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to…

— Victor Hugo

Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Plotinus, when he thinks about mind or intellect, the Greek word is 'nous', he thinks about something that's very different, it's much more elevated…

— Peter Adamson

“Odysseus is the statesman of the Iliad, the man in the middle, keeping what balance he can among the parties. He shows himself at…

— Eva Brann

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation…

— Pericles

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

— Edward Said

“Once, in his first term, Cartwright had been bold enough to ask him why he was clever, what exercises he did to keep his…

— Stephen Fry

“During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus…

— Milan Kundera

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on…

— Aristotle

The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded…

— Joseph Jacobs

“Thinking Thinking is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part. When the idea enters the mind,…

— Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari