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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Edith Hamilton
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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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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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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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 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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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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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 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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..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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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 Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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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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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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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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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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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)
Edith Hamilton
Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
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