Able Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

— W. H. Auden

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

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

— Jean-Baptiste Say

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

— Jack McDevitt

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

The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys…

— Henry Grady Weaver

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life…

— Robert Kennedy

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 nature of civilisation everywhere was such that, even with the Greeks, it diverted people’s minds away from the reality of death.”

— Antal Szerb

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

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage…

— Adolf Hitler

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche