Quotes Tagged "greek"

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Call no man happy until he is dead.

if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.

Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Σήμερα πάντως ζω. Ξέρεις πόσο σπουδαίο είναι αυτό; Τώρα είμαστε μαζί! Σου σφίγγω τα χέρια, σε κοιτάζω στα μάτια. Μην αφήνεις ποτέ σου το σήμερα να μαραίνεται. Μην αφήνεις τη ζωή να χάνεται σαν την άμμο μέσα από τα δάχτυλά σου. Ζήσε. Κατάλαβες; Ζήσε! Μη βάζεις, το Σήμερα ενέχυρο σ' αυτό που εννοούνε μερικοί μουχλιασμένοι Αύριο. Το Σήμερα είναι δικό σου, φίλε. Αγάπησέ το!

There are few things more mysterious than endings. I mean, for example, when did the Greek gods end, exactly? Was there a day when Zeus waved magisterially down from Olympus and Aphrodite and her lover Ares, and her crippled husband Hephaestus ) I always felt sorry for him), and all the rest got rolled up like a worn-out carpet?

Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this 'blunder,' rejected by Einstein, is still sometimes used by cosmologists even today, and the cosmological constant denoted by the Greek letter Λ rears its ugly head again and again and again.