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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
Edith Hamilton
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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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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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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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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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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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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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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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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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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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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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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
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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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Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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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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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 comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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