Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.
What good is all the painstaking work on copy if the headline isn't right? If the headline doesn't stop people, the copy might as well be written in Greek.
Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.
The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?
The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.
Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.
No word in our language not even "Socialism" has been employed more loosely than " Mysticism. ". . . The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut.
Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.
Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us. "
One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.
It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living. ' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.
I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.