Apollo Quote by Jerome Bruner

In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention, constraint, oppression.…

— Camille Paglia

“What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion to the…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Another common error is to identify ‘Apollonian’ with ‘good’—merely because our most respectable sects are all rather Apollonian in ritual and precept. Mere local…

— Robert A. Heinlein

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He…

— Richard Holt Hutton

In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which…

— Bryan Ward-Perkins

Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of…

— Allan Bloom

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

— Francois Rabelais

A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art'…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's…

— Catherine Camus

Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no one can…

— Simon Kapwepwe

“Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes…

— Charles Spurgeon