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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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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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Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
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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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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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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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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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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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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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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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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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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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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)
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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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