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“Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ¾ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ¾ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers”

“I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy.”

Wanted Greek Sitcom Lucy Olives

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“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”

People Writing Helping Inspiration Reading Alcohol Greek Tedious Buzz Bland Reading Or Writing

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners promises concern a four-year parliamentary term, european Union partners will be spaced out in an optimal way, in a way that is in tune with our bargaining stance in Europe and also with the fiscal position of the Greek state.”

Way Years Said States Term Four Position Promise Europe Concern Unions Partners Greek Tunes Four Years European Union Stance Bargaining Parliamentary Optimal

Author:Yanis Varoufakis

“We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much in the last thousand or two thousand years.So that the old Greek dramas are still at the very heart, core, of human experience, but still we need new stuff.”

Needs Years Humans Heart Art Stills Two Lasts Humanity Courses Stuff Can Do Changed Drama Thousand Core Greek Thousand Years Human Experience New Stuff Old Greek Greek Drama

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.”

Originals Shoes Naked Greek Olympics Runners

Author:Mark Twain

“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.”

Long Masters Slavery Slave Superiors Greek Plato Justified Barbarians

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!”

Book Found Bed Greek Plato Secrecy Pillow Egyptian Platonic Death Bed Plato S Sphinx

Book:BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past

Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past

“It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.”

Voice Week Eternal Accidents Employment Greek Flames Acquire Awe Temples Banking Juniors Bankers Register Rite Withdrawal Deposits Bankers And Banks

Book:Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

“The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were contrived, and by whom they were also contrasted and placed in opposition, as denoting two mutually conflicting and mutually inconsistent ideas. ... [this fallacy] based on a double system of natural laws retarded for centuries the development of physical science, notably mechanics.”

“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.”

Knows Men Doe Young Findings Following Greek Young Man Genesis

Book:Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

“This is a very special Greek kind of socialist, all the social democratic parties in Europe are against this idea and I think that the dividing line today in the Greek political system is not the centre right or socialist, the real dividing line is between those parties and those political forces who really believe that Greece should stay in the Eurozone and make the efforts and change, and make the reforms and change the old and Mr Tsipras who is really resisting any kind of change in Greece.”

“The interesting thing is that the 82% of the Greeks do not want to abandon the Euro. They really believe that there might be some kind of magical way where we could stay in the Eurozone but do not do our homework. This is not possible. So what we are trying to do is explain, you know, we in Greece invented democracy but we also invented at the same time populism.”

Knows Way Want Trying Believe Kind Might Interesting Democracy Greek Abandon Greece Interesting Things Homework Euro Populism Eurozone

Author:Dora Bakoyannis

“We are neck and neck but there will be a very - it will be a very tough campaign in the last ten days. We must be very open and sincere with the Greek people. They should know what they could really expect. I think all of these old political logic is dead. We have to be honest, open and determined to get the Greeks out of this crisis.”

People Thinking Knows Should Lasts Political Honest Ten Tough Logic Crisis Determined Campaigns Being Honest Greek Necks Sincere

Author:Dora Bakoyannis

“For the liver, what's so interesting is that there's no stem cell in the liver. So the normal liver actually can regenerate. It's one of the only organs in the human body that can do this, and we've known this since the time of Greek mythology.”

Humans Body Can Do Interesting Known Normal Mythology Cells Greek Organs Stem Greek Mythology Human Body Liver Stem Cell Greek Myth

Author:Sangeeta N. Bhatia

“I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the Trojan War and decided that the Greeks were really a bunch of frauds with their tricky horses and the terrible things they did, stealing one another's wives, and so on, so at that very early age, I re-wrote the ending of the Iliad so that the Trojans won. And boy, Achilles and Ajax got what they wanted, believe me. And thereafter, at frequent intervals, I would write something. It was really quite extraordinary. Never of very high merit, but the daringness of it was.”

“Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.”

World Should Humanity Nations Pure Directors Blind Library Ancient Greek Divided Centre Good And Bad Fitting Barbarians Chauvinism Ancient World Alexandria

Author:Carl Sagan

“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.”

People Littles Nations Wonderful Written Civilization Europe Direct Western Former Greek Savages Superiority Inheritance Summit Old Greek

Book:Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

Source: Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

“In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...”

World Long Real Earth Lost Strong Mythology Contact Greek Giants Real World Isolated Engineers Greek Mythology Greek Myth

Author:Hyman Rickover

“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.”

Long Names Hair Battle Dresses Warrior Greek Great War American Indian Samurai Long Hair Great Warrior

Author:Troy Polamalu

“You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!”

Whole Humanity Nations Greek Etc

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Without Greek studies there is no education.”

Study Greek

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.”

Inspire Philosopher Greek Greek Philosopher

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.”

Study Shame Ancient Educated Greek Ancient Greek

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Paul indeed wanted to reveal the unknown God to the philosophers and then affirms of Him, that no human intellect can conceive Him. Therefore, God is revealed therein, that one knows that every intellect is too small to make itself a figuration or concept of Him. However, he names him God, or in Greek, theos.”

Knows Humans Wanted Names Concepts Philosopher Intellect Greek

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“Blind hope. Blind hope is all we have. There's a Greek tragedy called Prometheus Bound; Prometheus is the [titan] that gave humans fire. He's chained to a rock and bemoaning his fate and saying, "I gave you everything. By giving you fire, I gave you blind hope. By giving you a little light that kept you warm at night, I let you believe that this was all going to be okay." For me, that's what art has been. Music and books, it's an act of hope to make them, and it's an act of hope to listen to them. That hope will be dashed, you will say goodbye.”

Giving Believe Humans Littles Has Beens Art Book Light Night Fire Fate Rocks Okay Tragedy Blind Bounds Warm Greek Goodbye Saying Goodbye Chained Titans Greek Tragedy Prometheus

Author:Torquil Campbell

“You get most out of walking by going along briskly, swinging the arms and breathing deeply. It also helps promote the circulation of blood to the brain. The Greek philosophers promenaded as they philosophized.”

Helping Brain Blood Arms Walking Philosopher Breathing Greek Circulation Greek Philosopher

Author:Paul Dudley White

“Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates also spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man 'yet to come'. Confucius spoke of 'the Saint'; the Sibyls, of a 'Universal King'; the Greek dramatist, of a saviour and redeemer to unloose man from the 'primal eldest curse'. All these were on the Gentile side of the expectation. What separates Christ from all men is that first He was expected; even the Gentiles had a longing for a deliverer, or redeemer. This fact alone distinguishes Him from all other religious leaders.”

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

Should Next Chinese Greek Borrowing Bail Bailouts Borrowing Money

Author:Jeb Hensarling

“The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.”

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“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.”

Thinking Philosophy Certain Sports Ten Safe Absolutes Greek Yards Antidote

Author:Jack Nicholson

“There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.”

World Two Architecture Greek

Author:Nicholas Biddle

“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”

Thinking Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom Science Rights Life Philosophy Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Mathematics Ancient Greek Engineering Reserves Wise Man Once Said Ancient Greek Alexandria

Author:Hypatia

“The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natural order and human experience as were current in their days, and in a language that was common to themselves and their contemporaries. This is saying no more than that they wrote to be understood. Their picture of the world and things in it is not put forward as normative for later science, andy more than their use of Hebrew and Greek is put forward as a perfect model for composition in these languages.”

Men World Humans Use Order Language Natural Perfect Common Speech Models Understood Currents Greek Biblical Composition Sovereignty Human Experience Saying No Hebrew Natural Order

Author:J. I. Packer

“Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.”

Men Has Beens Art Language Perfect Greek

Author:Edward Gibbon

“Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.”

Giving Soul Philosophy Body Language Objects Musical Greek Abstraction

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“We all have to accept accusations that we ignored the refugee crisis for far too long. The first time that I referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Europe's cemetery was in October 2013, when hundreds of people drowned off Lampedusa. Italians, Maltese, Greeks and Spaniards have been pleading for help for years. But nobody cared.”

“Oh, you're in television! That's interesting. No, I mean, the word television is interesting. It's a hybrid, you see: tele- comes from the greek, and -vision comes from the latin. It should have been either "telerama", or "procolvision".”

Should Mean Has Beens Interesting Vision Television Should Have Greek Latin Should Have Been Hybrid

Author:Graham Chapman

“Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."”

Mean Divine Filled Inspired Enthusiasm Greek

Book:The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

Source: The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

“I don't mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don't think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more than you glorify whores. We all know we have weaknesses. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates.”

Thinking Knows Mind Doe Kids Happened Television Weakness Destroyed Greek Nevertheless Homosexuality Glorify

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“If some should accuse us as if we held that people born before the time of Christ were not accountable to God for their actions, we shall anticipate and answer such a difficulty. We have been taught that Christ is the first-begotten of God, and we have declared him to be the Logos of which all mankind partakes. Those, therefore, who lived according to reason (logos) were really Christians, even though they were thought to be atheists, such as, among the Greeks, Socrates, Heraclitus and others like them.”

People Ifs Should Firsts Has Beens Reason Action Christian Christ Born Answers Mankind Taught Difficulty Atheist Greek Anticipate Logos

Author:Justin Martyr

“My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the Greek civilization as the Greeks were developing their Age of Reason. And we're talking about the foundation of Western Civilization, and almost concurrently with that, Roman law was emerging as well.”

Wells Reason Age Law Talking Progress Civilization Mountain Foundation Western Developing Greek Emerging Western Civilization Mosaics Age Of Reason Greek Civilization

Author:Steve King

“All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.”

Thinking Alive Greek

Book:Picture This: A Novel

Source: Picture This: A Novel

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

Has Beens Made Language Drunk Greek Cages

Author:Amber Valletta

“I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.”

Thinking Believe Persons Found Greek Crave Temperament Cosmology Gnosis

Author:Terence McKenna

“Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end.”

Mean Ends Greek

Author:Terence McKenna

“We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.”

Humans Events Mere Accidents Greek Cosmic Human Experience Spectators Chorus Sideshows Greek Chorus

Author:Terence McKenna

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

Greek Crush Combat Bores Dressings Fatigue Gears

Author:Sophocles

“The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.”

Mean Acting Seeing Theater Theatre Greek Best Acting Theatre Acting Method Acting Acting Teachers

Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.”

Facts Modern Limits Greek Misunderstanding

Book:On the Art of Poetry

Source: On the Art of Poetry

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