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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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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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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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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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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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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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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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Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
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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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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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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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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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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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