Ancient Quote by Dorothea Brande Download Open image “The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.” — Dorothea Brande ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Ancient greek Ancient greeks Games Games Ancient Greek Greeks Greeks Original Institutions Originals Religious Religious Solemnities Solemnity
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“The Greeks think they justly honor players, because they worship the gods who demand plays; the Romans, on the other hand, do not suffer… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the values of… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
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Socrates was tried in a religious court. He was condemned for disregarding Athens' gods. If you look at the way he speaks at his… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“My own experience has been that there is no field where one who is in earnest about learning to do good work can make… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“I suspect that every teacher hears the same complaints, but that, being seldom a practicing author, he tends to dismiss them as out of… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.” — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover,… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
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Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image