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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
Edith Hamilton
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
... 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
Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
Edith Hamilton
A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
Edith Hamilton
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.
Edith Hamilton
Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
Edith Hamilton
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
Edith Hamilton
The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
Edith Hamilton
A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
Edith Hamilton
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.
Edith Hamilton
Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
Edith Hamilton
The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
Edith Hamilton
The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
Edith Hamilton
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
Edith Hamilton
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
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
Edith Hamilton
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
Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
Edith Hamilton