Hellenistic Quotes

#1. I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.

Kate Reardon

#2. The one, more Latin, more Roman, closer to eloquence than to the literal word, aims at a certain effect, at magic. The other, more Greek, more Hellenistic, seeks transparency flowing from the source.

Therese De Lisieux

#3. The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.

J. B. Jackson

#4. She knew neither that she was living in the first century BC nor in the Hellenistic Age, both of them later constructs. (The Hellenistic Age begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and ends in 30 BC, with the death of Cleopatra.

Stacy Schiff

#5. The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves ...

Peter Drucker

#6. The Hellenistic world was international to a degree, polyglot and inspired by many religious faiths ... the Greek ideals were pagan and the Hellenistic age witnessed their death struggle against Asiatic and Egyptian mysteries , on the one side, and against Judaism , on the other.

George Sarton

#7. And from an early age she enjoyed the best education available in the Hellenistic world, at the hands of the most gifted scholars, in what was incontestably the greatest center of learning in existence:

Stacy Schiff

#8. A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.

Terence McKenna

#9. (The Hellenistic Age begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and ends in 30 BC, with the death of Cleopatra. It has been perhaps best defined as a Greek era in which the Greeks played no role.)

Stacy Schiff

#10. From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist ... is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was foreshadowed at the time ... Should we not replace these foreshadowings by the study of the influences of Hellenistic thought on modern thought?

Lucio Russo

#11. Stoicism was one of the new philosophical movements of the Hellenistic period.

Anonymous

#12. I like how TV used to be - 'Boys from the Blackstuff' and 'Play for Today', instead of 'Stars in Your Eyes' and 'Celebrity Come Cook With Me' or whatever. I hate all that stuff.

Stephen Graham

#13. Love simply, perpetually exists and that it's a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it.

Sharon Salzberg

#14. Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror

Horace

#15. I think I might have a disorder where your emotions frequently malfunction and a lot of the time you're sitting there feeling something inappropriate. It should be called Emotional Moron Disorder

Jesse Andrews

#16. But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.

C.C. Hunter

#17. Encourage the many; mentor the few.

John C. Maxwell

#18. Many companies don't exist after 25 years. It's a rarity. Or if they do exist, they're like IBM, with a totally changing personality.

John Morgridge

#19. Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.

Brian A. McBride

#20. The mania for telling lies and believing them is as contagious as the itch.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#21. The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.

Karl Barth

#22. God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Pope Francis