"No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of……" — Edith Hamilton
"No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful."
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43 Quotes by Edith Hamilton
Edith Hamilton has 43 quotes on this site.
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So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to…
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never…
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When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the…
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.
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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables…
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet,…
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Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace,…
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality…
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the…
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It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was…
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able…
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a…
— David Attenborough
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
— Chinua Achebe
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
— John James Audubon
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in…
— Saint Augustine
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about…
— Paul Auster
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
— Diane Ackerman
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
— Diane Ackerman
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