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Source: The Seven Lamps of Architecture: Also, Lectures on Architecture and Painting; The Study of Architecture; Sesame and Lilies; Unto this Last; The Queen of the Air; The Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century

“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.”

Way Art Real Reality Materials Theory Art Is Real Life Greek Imitation Mimesis

Book:The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

Source: The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

“Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus.”

Ifs Rose Glasses Greek Mars Mice Bucks Venus Colored Glass Rose Colored Glasses

Author:Terre Thaemlitz

“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.”

Running Three Democracy Greek Officials Airports Greece Athens

Author:Nigel Farage

“My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.”

My Favorite Greek Honey Yogurt Greek Yogurt

Author:Misty May-Treanor

“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.”

Whole Certain Degrees Areas Greek

Author:Donald Kagan

“The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same as the Greek formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding through the Son, fell ill and died. An unkind scholar remarked that after muddling his prepositions what else could he decently do?”

Son Holy Died Ill Ghost Greek Latin Formulas Scholar Holy Ghost Unkind Proceeding Patriarch Prepositions

Author:Steven Runciman

“If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.”

Ifs Years Mind Humans Done Facts Beautiful Human Beings Ability Wonderful Objects Enormous Greek Museums Marble

Author:Michael Steinhardt

“And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?”

Courses Possession Greek Greece Invasion Turkish Subjugation

Author:Melina Mercouri

“Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant”

Ignorant Greek Latin Agnostic

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.”

Kind Doe Stills Might Pleasure Environment Violence Offers Normal Machines Reactions Greek Moderation Humane Bicycle Cycling

Author:J. B. Jackson

“I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.”

Mets Greek Latin Passages Quotations Old Greek

Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.”