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"What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period."
"Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end."
"Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last"
"Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness."
"I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age."
"I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff."
"The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear."
"The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience."
"The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us."
"Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts."
"All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed in some form. But they all went east. That's where a Greek went to make his bones so to speak. And Alexander the Great was the first man who actually went east not to plunder, not to loot and come back to Greece - which is where the Macedonians wanted to go back with the money. He stayed. And he became half-Eastern."
"I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush."
"I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there."
"Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body."
"The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause."
"It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level."
"Without Greek studies there is no education."
"Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage."
"Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek."
"The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word."
