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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

Edith Hamilton

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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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Classical Scholar
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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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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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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 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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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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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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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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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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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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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.
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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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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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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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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 chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.
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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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