Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“If the Greeks were—as they were indeed—a brilliant people, they were individualistic to a fault, and concerned with the fate and fortune of themselves…

— Ernle Bradford

“because the Greeks existed among things and did not position the world in relation to themselves, they could not be subiectum. They did not…

— Barbara Bolt

The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in…

— Louis Pasteur

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

— Albert Einstein

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism, humanism, democracy—which…

— Caroline Alexander

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

“The small Greek city-states could not understand what the organisation of a great empire and the movement of many thousands of men entailed: they…

— Ernle Bradford

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

— Thucydides

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

“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

“Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part of us,…

— Louis de Bernières