146 Quotes by Edith Hamilton

sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

Convention, so often a mask for injustice ...

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.