Old Greek Quotes

• Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Block, Air, Greek

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• La vida no examinada no merece la pena ser vivida.

  Socrates

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

  En Plato "Apología" 38a

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  Lo que dejas atrás no es lo que se graba en monumentos de piedra, sino lo que se teje en la vida de los demás.

  Pericles

  Vida, Educación, Agradecimiento

  "Flicker to Flame: Vivir con propósito, sentido y felicidad". Libro de Jeffrey Thompson Parker, octubre de 2006.

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• 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.

  Charles Darwin

  Europe, Civilization, People

  Charles Darwin (2004). “Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.120, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Necesitamos arte nuevo. El arte antiguo no puede hacer eso. Puede hacer muchas otras cosas y, por supuesto, la humanidad no ha cambiado tanto en los últimos mil o dos mil años, de modo que los viejos dramas griegos siguen estando en el corazón, en el núcleo, de la experiencia humana, pero aun así necesitamos cosas nuevas.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Arte, Drama, Años

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Believe, Psychology, Greek

  "Strong Opinions" by Vladimir Nabokov, (p. 66), 1973.

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• I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.

  Bayard Taylor

  Hermoso, Ojo, Manos

  Bayard Taylor (1855). “The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain”, p.154

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• Estados Unidos no lucha para ganar una guerra. Luchamos para aplicar un viejo proverbio griego, según el cual el objetivo de la guerra no es aniquilar al enemigo, sino conseguir que se enmiende. Y estamos seguros de que podemos conseguir que el enemigo se enmiende.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Guerra, Lucha, Ganar

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• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Latin, Greek, Mets

  Joseph Addison (1868). “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”, p.437

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• And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.

  Ted Hughes

  Real, Rivers, People

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