Age Quote by David Gemmell

“But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete prejudices, driven…

— Sydney J. Harris

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not…

— John Dewey

But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious…

— Edward Gibbon

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is…

— George Sarton

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our…

— Friedrich Schiller

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot…

— Edith Hamilton

What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?

— Jean-Baptiste Say

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the…

— Henry Fuseli

“Ancient philosophy was framed by prodigies, Aristotle, Plato and Socrates. And even though their thoughts were deemed the aristocratic voice, they also had a…

— Henry Phillips

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by…

— Anonymous

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

— John Fowles

when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and…

— Ethel Smyth