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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

Edith Hamilton

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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
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There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.
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The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greeks said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.
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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is not emphasized enough the fact that it is so much more agreeable and interesting to be an educated person than not. The sheer pleasure of being educated does not seem to be stressed.
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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
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He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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