List of Edith Hamilton Quotes

Christ Must Be Rediscovered Perpetually.

Ages Of Faith And Of Unbelief Are Always Said To Mark The Course Of History.

We Must Not Contradict, But Instruct Him That Contradicts Us; For A Madman Is Not Cured By Another Running Mad Also. To Be Able To Be Caught Up Into The World Of Thought -- That Is Being Educated.

Moderately Wise Each One Should Be, Not Overwise, For A Wise Man's Heart Is Seldom Glad (norse Wisdom)

In Theology The Conservative Temper Tends To Formalism.

There Is No Better Indication Of What The People Of Any Period Are Like Than The Plays They Go To See.

So Far, We Do Not Seem Appalled At The Prospect Of Exactly The Same Kind Of Education Being Applied To All The School Children From The Atlantic To The Pacific, But There Is An Uneasiness In The Air, A Realization That The Individual Is Growing Less Easy To Find; An Idea, Perhaps, Of What Standardization Might Become When The Units Are Not Machines, But Human Beings.

..,no Love Cannot Leave Where There Is No Trust..,~cupid And Psyche..,"greek Mythology Of Edith Hamilton

There Is A Field Where All Wonderful Perfections Of Microscope And Telescope Fail, All Exquisite Niceties Of Weights And Measures, As Well As That Which Is Behind Them, The Keen And Driving Power Of The Mind. No Facts However Indubitably Detected, No Effort Of Reason However Magnificently Maintained, Can Prove That Bach's Music Is Beautiful.

... Clear Thinking Is Not The Characteristic Which Distinguishes Our Literature Today. We Are More And More Caught Up By The Unintelligible. People Like It. This Argues An Inability To Think, Or, Almost As Bad, A Disinclination To Think.

A Tendency To Exaggeration Was A Roman Trait.

No Facts, However Indubitably Detected, No Effort Of Reason, However Magnificently Maintained, Can Prove That Bach's Music Is Beautiful.