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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Edith Hamilton

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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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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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... 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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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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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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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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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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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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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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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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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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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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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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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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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 Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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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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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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