Quotes about Greeks

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do. Votes: 5

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks Votes: 4

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail? Votes: 4

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. Votes: 4

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies. Votes: 4

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. Votes: 4

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. Votes: 4

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks. Votes: 4

We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks Votes: 4

The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes. Votes: 4

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Votes: 4

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. Votes: 4

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. Votes: 4

You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true. Votes: 4

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. Votes: 4

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Votes: 4

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. Votes: 4

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. Votes: 4

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster. Votes: 4

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. Votes: 4

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.' Votes: 4

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex. Votes: 4

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Votes: 4

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.' Votes: 4

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. Votes: 4

We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for. Votes: 4

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with. Votes: 4

There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world, just like I did with the Greeks and 'Percy Jackson.' I'll give the books an urban setting and have young people interacting with the Norse gods. Votes: 4

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama. Votes: 4

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, Votes: 3

Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge. Votes: 3

I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea. Votes: 3

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are. Votes: 3

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. Votes: 3

The Serbs have only two friends, God and the Greeks. Votes: 3

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. Votes: 3

Separation of mind and body, that's been around since the Greeks. Votes: 3

If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now. Votes: 3

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. Votes: 3

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. Votes: 3

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. Votes: 3

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. Votes: 3

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. Votes: 3

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. Votes: 3

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day. Votes: 3

The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt. Votes: 3

The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying. Votes: 3

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. Votes: 3

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate. Votes: 3

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. Votes: 3

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. Votes: 3

Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. Votes: 3

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance. Votes: 3

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem. Votes: 3

What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks? Votes: 3

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life. Votes: 3

Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro. Votes: 3

I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time. Votes: 3

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it. Votes: 3

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories. Votes: 3

In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem. Votes: 3

Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me. Votes: 3

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. Votes: 3

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. Votes: 3

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks Votes: 3

Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey. Votes: 3

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness. Votes: 3

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving. Votes: 3

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more. Votes: 3

Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called "˜erotika pathemata' by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering. Votes: 3

Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves. Votes: 3

He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife. Votes: 3

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue. Votes: 3

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you. Votes: 3

The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks. Votes: 3

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause. Votes: 3

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. Votes: 3

The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear. Votes: 3

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. Votes: 3

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. Votes: 3

We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts? Votes: 3

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. Votes: 3

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front. Votes: 3

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. Votes: 3

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks Votes: 3

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks. Votes: 3

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. Votes: 3

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. Votes: 3

The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone. Votes: 3

The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy. Votes: 3

The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence. Votes: 3

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response. Votes: 3

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. Votes: 3

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods. Votes: 3

You know the Greeks didnt write obituaries, they only asked one question after a man died, "˜Did he have passion?' Votes: 3

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism. Votes: 3

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. Votes: 3

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing Votes: 3

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep. Votes: 3

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science. Votes: 3

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside! Votes: 3

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside! Votes: 3

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions. Votes: 3

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. Votes: 3

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. Votes: 3

The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair. Votes: 3

Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure. Votes: 3

For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced Votes: 3

In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned. Votes: 3

Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite nicely. Votes: 3

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though. Votes: 3

The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience. Votes: 3

If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you. Votes: 3

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have felt that there was a close relationship between a strong vital mind and physical fitness. Votes: 3

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure. Votes: 3

Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle. Votes: 3

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college." Votes: 3

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.' Votes: 3

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review. Votes: 3

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. Votes: 3

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian. Votes: 3

The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant. Votes: 3

While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of Achilles. Votes: 3

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots. Votes: 3

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind. Votes: 3

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless. Votes: 3

The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right. Votes: 3

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre Votes: 3

No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure. Votes: 3

The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom. Votes: 3

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre. Votes: 3

The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks know that I know nothing. Votes: 3

Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes Votes: 3

The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were good, just magnificent. Votes: 3

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The Greeks according to official history used letters for hundreds, for tens, and ones.It was extremely complicated. If you talk about Archimedes, you should use Greek letters. Votes: 3

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something. Votes: 3

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means. Votes: 3

Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature. Votes: 3

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death. Votes: 3

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams. Votes: 3

We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner. Votes: 3

The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm. Votes: 3

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing Votes: 3

...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis. Votes: 3

The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people. Votes: 3

In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets. Votes: 3

The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked, unclear as to whether they received or emanated light. Votes: 3

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such." Votes: 3

Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem. Votes: 3

The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience. Votes: 3

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people. Votes: 3

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy? Votes: 3

Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy. Votes: 3

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ... Votes: 3

The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart. Votes: 3

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly. Votes: 3

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. Votes: 3

The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans. Votes: 3

Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the Greeks.....time meandered back and forth between reality and myth. Votes: 3

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly. Votes: 3

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics. Votes: 3

Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in a better situation. We will be stronger. Votes: 3

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences. Votes: 3

In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo's messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota Sioux, embodiments of clear vision, speed and single-minded dedication. Votes: 3

The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise Votes: 3

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful. Votes: 3

On with you, horse-taming Trojans! Never give Greeks best in your will to fight! They are not made of stone or iron. Their flesh can't keep out penetrating spears when they are hit. Votes: 3

The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as deep as you can. This is what I've done. Votes: 3

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either. Votes: 3

I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories. Votes: 3

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean. Votes: 3

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt. Votes: 3

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage Votes: 3

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage. Votes: 3

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex Votes: 3

Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English, Scots, Aquitanians, Italians, Danes, Apulians, Iberians, Bretons, Greeks and Armenians. Votes: 3

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists. Votes: 3

The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes. Votes: 3

It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks. Votes: 3

For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature. Votes: 3

The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down. Votes: 3

And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended. Votes: 3

In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks , and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child 's soul with poetry every day. Votes: 3

If you decide to tell a kid that looks don't matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because they see it everywhere. That is age-old, going back to the Greeks, but now we're bombarded nonstop. Votes: 3

The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking money from the state for doing nothing. It's an essentially corrupt society. Votes: 3

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom. Votes: 3

There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything. Votes: 3

Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge effort. Votes: 3

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them. Votes: 3

Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else. Votes: 3

The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life. Votes: 3

The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms. Votes: 3

The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood. Votes: 3

... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant. Votes: 3

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise. Votes: 3

I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest. Votes: 3

Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization of the country has to stop if we want a strong Europe. So I am setting a positive example. Votes: 3

The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection. Votes: 3

I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international classics in Russian translation like Victor Hugo, George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain. Votes: 3

Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher. Votes: 3

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution. Votes: 3

The Greeks had the greatest architectonic gifts. Every art has its climax at some point, and here architecture had its high point. Modeling and painting reached their climax elsewhere. Despite the gigantic pyramids, the most wonderful architecture appears in the Greek temple. Votes: 3

The marriage of Zeus and Hera can hardly be reframed into a happy one and yet Hera is the Goddess of marriage. Hera and Zeus could be described as quarrelsome predecessors of the Holy Family. For the Greeks they symbolized marriage par excellence. Votes: 3

To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal. Votes: 3

I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in Europe. Greeks, especially on the islands, have shown extraordinary compassion and they've rightly earned the admiration of the world. Votes: 3

The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating Votes: 3

Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them. Votes: 3

This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past. It was like the past was the future. Votes: 3

Greeks have always been very confident, very strong people. That is - that is our real, I guess, benefit, is that we are independent thinkers. We will always get up on our feet. We - we sometimes act the best when we are downtrodden. Votes: 3

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks. Votes: 3

Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. Votes: 3

The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physical Greece, Greek mythology had enveloped Rome. The Empire coul be confident in itself until a Roman poet matched Homer and harmonized Greek civilization with Roman ideals Votes: 3

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks. Votes: 3

The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it. Votes: 3

In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of marriage as a union between one man and one woman. They got the joke. And the American people get the joke. Votes: 3

As the Greeks saw it, to be a man was to be defined by your ability to exert power in a world articulated through transcendent forces ultimately beyond human control. The apparent futility of this perspective was outweighed by the nobility that came with the struggle. Votes: 3

Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate. Votes: 3

Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing. Votes: 3

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks. Votes: 3

As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness. Votes: 3

We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time." -Mrs. Karafilis Votes: 3

One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love? Votes: 3

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today. Votes: 3

The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people. Votes: 3

Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero - the Greeks, the Chinese, and the Maya did, among others. Once invented, science proved so useful that it spread like mold on a petri dish. Votes: 3

The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke. Votes: 3

The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works at cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative. Votes: 3

We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're ...sophisticated.' Votes: 3

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education. Votes: 3

Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you. Votes: 3

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain. Votes: 3

From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself. Votes: 3

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society. Votes: 3

The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him. Votes: 3

Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment. Votes: 2

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet. Votes: 2

The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe. Votes: 2