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Edith Hamilton Quotes

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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) 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  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) Convention, so often a mask for injustice  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man’s heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one’s country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit...  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) A people’s literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) Love cannot live where there is no trust  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) The mind knows only what lies near the heart  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) The fullness of life is in the hazards of life  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) A curse seemed to hang over the family, making men sin in spite of themselves and bringing suffering and death down upon the innocent as well as the guilty  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set to thought  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) When we speak of beauty, we’re speaking of something we’re more or less indifferent to  (Edith Hamilton Quotes)
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