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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
Edith Hamilton
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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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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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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... 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.
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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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Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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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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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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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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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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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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