"The fact is that much misunderstanding is often……" — Gilbert Murray
"The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word."
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Gilbert Murray
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12 Quotes by Gilbert Murray
Gilbert Murray has 12 quotes on this site.
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The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy…
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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a…
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It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing…
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A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and…
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The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a…
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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions…
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Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation…
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Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do…
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Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
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Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think,…
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More Attempts Quotes
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always…
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
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Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over…
— Andrea Bocelli
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
— Andre Breton
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement,…
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If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near…
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying…
— Florence Nightingale
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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data…
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