Edith Hamilton
"It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated.[Saturday Evening Post, September 27, 1958]"
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"It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated.[Saturday Evening Post, September 27, 1958]"
"لطالما استغربتُ كيف أن نقاشاتنا اللامتناهية حول التعليم قلّما تُبرز متعة أن يصبح المرء مثقفًا، وما يضيفه ذلك من اهتمام هائل للحياة. أن تُسحر بعالم الفكر—ذلك هو التعليم."
Edith Hamilton
"Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth."
"العقل والروح معًا يشكلان ما يميزنا عن سائر عالم الحيوان، وهما ما يمكّنان الإنسان من إدراك الحقيقة، وما يدفعانه إلى الموت في سبيلها."
Edith Hamilton
"The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought."
Edith Hamilton
"When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again."
Edith Hamilton
"It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are..."
Edith Hamilton
"Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men."
Edith Hamilton
"Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both."
Edith Hamilton
"I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today."
Edith Hamilton
"It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educ"
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