Ancient Greeks Quotes

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
Marilyn French

Love, Power, Yourself

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
Stephen Gardiner

Legs, Ancient, Noticed

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.
Colin Quinn

Life, Living, Tell

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.
Henning Mankell

Work, Society, Old

I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest.
LeRoy Neiman

Great, Past, Energy

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
Angela Carter

Together, Dark, Same

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
Johannes Stark

Mind, Question, Ancient

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
George Lloyd

Ancient, Truths, Myths

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