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Greek
«The Greek grasped the present moment, and was the artist; the Jew worshipped the timeless spirit, and was the prophet»
Author: Isaac Mayer Wise
(Rabbi)
| Keywords:
grasped, Greek, Jew, prophet, the Greek, The Prophet, timeless, worshipped
«That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
classical, Classical Greek, Greek, shoemaker, shoemakers, the Classical
«Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
abracadabra, ape, bloody, Chinese, Greek, Latin
«Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
consternation, Good Time, Greek, Greek Tragedy, integrate, integrated, in chorus, screen, television show, television shows, the Chorus, the screen, The Show, viewers
«I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs»
«Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Myths
| Keywords:
application, credulous, cured, Greek, myths, private parts, woes
«I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - / I said it in German and Greek; / But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) / That English is what you speak!»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
Dutch, forgot, German, Greek, Hebrew, the Dutch, vexes, vexing, wholly
«There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
awful, earliest, Greek, manners, Parthenon, sculpture, sculptures, splendor, splendors, The Parthenon, The Remains of the
«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.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
creed, Greek, Greek Church, Jewish, professed, professing, Protestant, Protestants, Protestant Church, roman, Roman Church, the Greek, Turkish
