146 Quotes by Edith Hamilton

Myths are early science, the result of men’s first trying to explain what they saw around them.

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.

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

Appropriately, his bird was the vulture. The dog was wronged by being chosen as his animal.

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

If Hesiod did write it, then a humble peasant, living on a lonely farm far from cities, was the first man in Greece to wonder how everything had happened, the world, the sky, the gods, mankind, and to think out an explanation. Homer never wondered about anything.

No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach’s music is beautiful.

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three.

Kiss me yet once again, the last, long kiss, Until I draw your soul within my lips And drink down all your love.