Quote

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)

Edith Hamilton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
Author
Classical Scholar
Historian
Mythographer
Teacher
Writer
Elbflorenz
Hamilton
Edith
Broken
Means
Cupid
Found
Sore
Soul
Psyche
Mean
Sought
Never
Trials
Love
Union
Unions

More quotes by Edith Hamilton

Image
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.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
Edith Hamilton
Image
It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
Edith Hamilton
Image
The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)
Edith Hamilton
Image
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.
Edith Hamilton
Image
They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.
Edith Hamilton
Image
All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
Edith Hamilton
Image
Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.
Edith Hamilton
Image
... 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.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
Edith Hamilton
Image
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.
Edith Hamilton
Image
A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
Edith Hamilton
Image
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
Image
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Edith Hamilton
Image
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.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
Edith Hamilton
Image
The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
Edith Hamilton