299 Quotes About Greek

Μα σαν σωπάσουν οι φωνές, σαν οι άνθρωποι χωρίσουν, σαν δεν έχει μείνει τίποτα άλλο να γκρεμίσεις, τότε έρχεται η σιωπή. Εκείνη η εκκωφαντική σιωπή που κάμει η μοναξιά σαν περνά στα «μέσα» σου, σαν σκοτεινιάζει τις άλλοτε χαρούμενες μέρες, σαν αρχίζει να ρουφά λίγο λίγο κάθε φορά το κόκκινο αίμα που τρέχει στις φλέβες..

Και σα γεράκι ο νους σέρνει φωνή μέσα στα χαλάσματα, χαρούμενος γιατί νιώθει πως έφτασε στο υψηλό σημείο να βλέπει την άβυσσο σαν πατρίδα.

Ορίστε άνθρωπος που θέλει να σώσει την πατρίδα και δεν μπορεί να σωθεί αυτός από μιαν τιποτένια συνήθεια" και κοίταξε το τσιγάρο.

Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we travel, learn languages, be educated.

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks