Crete Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth,…
— Carol P. Christ
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The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
— Camille Paglia
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In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and…
— Carol P. Christ
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Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore,…
— Herbert Spencer
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Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in…
— Thomas Wolfe
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I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.
— Woody Allen
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The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction…
— Neal Asher
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of…
— Lactantius
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We cant escape pain; we cant escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give in and relent,…
— Jacob Held
Who Wrote These Crete Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Crete Quotes as follows: