Edith Hamilton Quotes
Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.
When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be ...
Show MoreIt may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for fa...
Show MoreThough the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.
Love cannot live where there is no trust.
They yoked themselves to a car and drew her all the long way through dust and heat. Everyone admired...
Show MoreThe mind knows only what lies near the heart.
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil whi...
Show MoreNone so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.
The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.
A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect any...
Show MoreBesides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.
Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.
Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.
To the Greeks, the word "character" first referred to the stamp upon a coin. By extension, man was t...
Show MoreNoble self-restraint must have something to restrain.
The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression ...
Show MoreA man without fear cannot be a slave.
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Sym...
Show MoreMind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
Show MoreEuripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.
When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work
Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress ...
Show MoreShe was brave from excess of grief
I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn ...
Show MoreThe fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said '...
Show MoreFaith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
