Classical Quote by Raymond Chandler

“I'm not saying anything against the Modern side. Modern and Classical, they are equal, and each provides for a function in life. You must make  your free choice. Not everyone is capable of a Classical education. You must make your choice quite freely.”

— Muriel Spark

“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert…

— Nuno Roque

Of course we had the best possible classical education, which gave us a very strong foundation and tradition. But we also learned a lot…

— Luka Sulic

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

— Aldous Huxley

The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the…

— Raymond Chandler

No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had…

— Anonymous

“I feign knowledge of writing: that I know something about it, that I should have learned something after all these years, that I might…

— Chila Woychik

“Classical education was only half the old system of European education--below it and above it there was the religious education that was common to…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

— Russell Green

“Nowadays it seems you learn only what is reasonable and relevant. I went to Rome with a young friend, educated on the latest lines,…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“Dave would marvel, “Do people not realize that they are living in the greater Renaissance? Could you imagine how much Isaac Newton would have…

— David Flynn

“One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.”

— Melissa Wiley

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“When Alexander saw the depth of his empire he wept for there were no more worlds to concquer. Benefits of a classical education.”

— Hans Gruber

“If a free people is going to be reproduced, it will require watering and revivifying and owning anew older traditions and awaking the curiosity…

— Ben Sasse