Doe Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“into the depths of Scripture or researched a single Greek word. They simply taught what they knew. I don’t know any other”

— Beth Moore

“Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens…inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which…

— Anthony Everitt

“I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized in Anatole…

— Petr Beckmann

A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know.…

— Mary Beard

“If the Philistines were early associated with the Minoan civilization, and the Pulasti were an Aegean people, it is to be concluded that in…

— James John Courtenay

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking…

— Confucius

“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by the decay…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece,…

— William Cowper

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of…

— Thomas Bulfinch

“What the Greek called Kosmos was the image of a world that is not continuous but complete. Inevitably, then, the Greek man himself was…

— Oswald Spengler

“Here indeed was the great defect of the Greek mind: it was not disciplined; it lacked limiting and steadying traditions; it moved freely in…

— Will Durant