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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.
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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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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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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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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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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Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
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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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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 greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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