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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.
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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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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)
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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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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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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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 people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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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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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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..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
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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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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
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