Quotes About Greeks

The Florentines of the generation of 1402, men like Bruni and Alberti, had wanted to use the rediscovery of the ancient Greeks and Romans to change the world. Marsilio Ficino wanted to use it to change the self.

It was the math that mattered. And when the math yields a pattern of harmonious proportion, whether it's the golden section of the Greeks or the Sierpinski gasket and Mandelbrot set of modern fractal geometry, the Platonist knows, as Archimedes did many centuries before, that he is standing at the threshold of the truth.

If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

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

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

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

The Greeks saw wrestling as elemental, which likely explains why most ancient forms involved naked combatants who were doused in olive oil and often covered with a thin layer of sand to protect their skin from summer's sun and winter's cold.

Los griegos han tenido eticidad; pero Sócrates se propuso enseñarles las virtudes, los deberes, etc., morales, que tiene el hombre. El hombre moral no es el que quiere y hace lo justo; no es el hombre inocente, sino el que tiene conciencia de su acción.

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.'

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.

I think that the Greeks were extremely ambivalent about the stories of Amazons: they found them both thrilling and rather daunting at the same time.

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.

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

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

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.

The Egyptians of 4000 B.C. believed that the goddess Isis, wife of Osiris, taught them how to grow olives. The Greeks have a similar legend. But the Hebrew word for olive, zait, is probably older than the Greek word, elaia, and is thought to refer to Said in the Nile Delta.

The Greeks and Romans also sometimes used metallic lead to write or draw on papyrus, which is the origin of the modern expression "lead pencil"—despite the fact that a modern pencil contains no lead.

And it may also be affirmed, that experience itself gives a proof of this; for the ancient laws are too simple and barbarous; which allowed the Greeks to wear swords in the city, and to buy their wives of each [1269a]. other.

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

Inspector Tinou sat silent. The Greek police department did not welcome interference from other countries in their affairs. Particularly Americans. They are always too-sou, so sure of themselves.

The legion was raised by Mark Antony. He filled the ranks with men from Cleopatra's army. When Antony was defeated by Octavian, the Twenty-Second was integrated into the rest of the army and has been stationed on the Nile since then. They're a mix of Greeks and Egyptians from the Nile cities.

But this material offered more than variety of dramatic incident. These myths were the only national memory of the remote past, of a time before the Greeks invented the alphabet, so that, shifting and changing though they might be, they had the authority, for the audience, of what we call history.

The Greeks, who gave us history, philosophy and political science, never managed to solve the problems posed by their political disunity;

We're rowing like Greeks before those trees turn to treason, erased of all their writing.