Beautiful Quote by Louis Pasteur

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

— Madame de Stael

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

— Jon Gordon

“The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? This question is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Thucydides

“The Greeks have three words for love, and that night we knew them all.”

— Luna McNamara

“...for the interests of rulers require that their subjects should be poor in spirit, and that there should be no strong bond of friendship…

— Plato

“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

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our…

— Friedrich Schiller

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“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

“But this discourse, expressed in our paternal language, keeps clear the meaning of its words. The very quality of speech and of the Egyptian…

— Hermes Trismegistus

“Empathy, the Greeks believed, was a source of strength, not softness; the more you recognized yourself in others and connected with their distress, the…

— Christopher McDougall