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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
Edith Hamilton
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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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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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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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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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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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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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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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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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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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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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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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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
Edith Hamilton
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
Edith Hamilton
... 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.
Edith Hamilton
The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
Edith Hamilton
..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
Edith Hamilton
The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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