Ancient greece Quote by Carl Sagan

“Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy,…

— Emily Wilson

“The dusk rapidly deepened; the glades grew dark; the crackling of the fire and the wash of little waves along the rocky lake shore…

— Algernon Blackwood

“The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“In ancient Greece, some people did that for a living. They would just sit on a tree branch or a stone bench and ponder,…

— Patric Juillet

“This story twists the ancient myths we grow up with,” Berger says, “where what the reader knows about the Olympian gods, or thinks he…

— David Berger

“First we must learn to think mythologically. Powerful things happen when we touch the thinking which myths, fairy tales, and our own dreams bring…

— Robert A. Johnson

“In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the events of…

— Michael Meade

“This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs…

— Frank Herbert

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

“It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a…

— Tom Hiddleston

“When the ancients experienced gaps in their understanding of the world around them, they filled those gaps with God.”

— Dan Brown

“For every field planted and grown, for every tree rekindled from their rotting root beds, comes that ancient instinct, that hunger for acceptance, for…

— T.S. Tate