20 ordspråk av Edith Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

Edith Hamilton föddes den 12 August 1867 och dog den 31 Mai 1963 - Known for popularizing classical Greek and Roman literature.
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Att kunna föras in i tankens värld – det är att vara utbildad.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

Utbildning

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Tro

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.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

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.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Konst

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greek said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought."

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers

Sinne

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

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