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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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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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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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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 suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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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 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 Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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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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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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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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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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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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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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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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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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