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Quotes About Greek

Some argue against the Rapture by saying the word doesn't even appear in the Bible, but it does. As I've said, we have to read it in the Vulgate, the Latin version of the Bible. There the Greek word harpazo is translated rapiemur, the proper tense of rapio, the root of our English words "rapt" and "rapture.
~ Chuck Missler
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When they had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving them an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to be in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe it's from the Greek word for "apocalypse"—apokálypsis. An uncovering. A revealing.
~ Chuck Wendig
So, Ariadne was the babe with the ball of twine and the plan.
~ Claire Cross
Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea," Nina murmured, cocking her head in thought. "There's a quote from Hesiod, the Greek poet: 'A trusty and gentle god who thinks just and kindly thoughts and never lies.
~ Clive Cussler
If this was a level of security provided by Corinth's finest company, he considered making a career change, to Greek cat burglar.
~ Clive Cussler
Logos is a Greek word which denotes meaning.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
~ Virgil
Yo temo al Griego, aunque presente dones.
~ Virgil
It's books, sighed Helen, lifting an armful of sad volumes from the floor to the shelf. Greek from morning to night. If ever Miss Rachel marries, Chailey, pray that she may marry a man who doesn't know his ABC.
~ Virginia Woolf
Flush valóságos bölcs - írta nÅ'vérének Mrs. Browning; s talán a görögökre gondolt, akik úgy vélték, a boldogság a szenvedések útjának végén vár ránk. Ilyen az igazi filozófus: ruhája nincs ugyan, de nincs bolhája sem.
~ Virginia Woolf
Greek Catholic Church, that mild communion whose demands on one's conscience are so small in comparison with the comforts it offers.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The word Gnosis was used by the Greeks for 'knowledge' - not everyday common knowledge, but deep knowledge that can only be gained through direct individual revelation. In other words, it is 'Divine Knowledge.
~ Laurence Galian
Hermes Trismegistus is the most famous Gnostic. He was the founder of the pre-Christian lineage of Greek Gnosticism.
~ Laurence Galian
Modernleri büyüleyen, Yunanistan'?n en az apolloncu yönü kadar dionizoscu yönü de olmu?tur. Üç yüzy?ld?r, Eski Yunan mitoslar?n? yeni ba?tan yorumluyor Avrupa; Avrupal? yazarla­r? büyüleyen, bu mitoslar?n ilkel ve ha?in taraflar?. Yunan ve Latin edebiyatlanna ancak ?u manada klasik demek yerindedir: mekteplerde okutulurlar ve her zaman tazedirler.
~ Cemil Meriç
Its other name was Satis; which is Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three - or all one to me - for enough.' 'Enough House,' said I; 'that's a curious name, miss.' 'Yes,' she replied; 'but it meant more than it said. It meant, when it was given, that whoever had this house, could want nothing else.
~ Charles Dickens
A knowledge of Greek thought and life, and of the arts in which the Greeks expressed their thought and sentiment, is essential to high culture. A man may know everything else, but without this knowledge he remains ignorant of the best intellectual and moral achievements of his own race.
~ Charles Eliot Norton
Was there not some Greek myth about the man who tried to ravish the goddess, only to have her turn to stone when he touched her? That is literally what has happened to Paris. When the Germans came, the soul simply went out of it; and what is left is only stone.
~ Charles Glass
The Greek geographers of Alexandria, when they prepared their world map using the circumference of Eratosthenes, had in front of them source maps that had been drawn without the Eratosthenian error, that is, apparently without any discernible error at all. We shall see further evidence of this, evidence suggesting that the people who originated the maps possessed a more advanced science than that of the Greeks.
~ Charles H. Hapgood
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
reason is much more prosaic, and is simply that meta-phora is Greek for 'carry across' (meta = 'across', phor = 'carry'). Or to use the Latin equivalent, meta-phor just means trans-fer.
~ Guy Deutscher
Kyrie ! The radiance of the intellect. I ought to profess Greek, the language of the mind.
~ James Joyce
The waxen pallor of her face was almost spiritual in its ivorylike purity though her rosebud mouth was a genuine Cupid's bow, Greekly perfect.
~ James Joyce