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

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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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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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... 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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It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.
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..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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One form of religion perpetually gives way to another if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.
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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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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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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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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.
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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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I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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