Homeric Quotes

9 quotes by 8 authors

• When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us… — Umberto Eco
• So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky… — H.G. Wells
• The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain… — Karl Popper
• What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the… — Bertrand Russell
• What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. — Robert Fitzgerald
• O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the… — Mortimer Collins
• As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because… — Bertrand Russell

Who Wrote These Homeric Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 9 Homeric Quotes as follows:

• 2 Homeric Quotes by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Homeric Quote by Umberto Eco
• 1 Homeric Quote by H.G. Wells
• 1 Homeric Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
• 1 Homeric Quote by Karl Popper
• 1 Homeric Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Homeric Quote by Robert Fitzgerald
• 1 Homeric Quote by Mortimer Collins