Edith Hamilton Quotes

"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."
- Edith Hamilton
(Related: Athens, Freedom, Responsibility)

"When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos."
- Edith Hamilton
(Related: Chaos, Facts, Mind)

"To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated."
- Edith Hamilton
(Related: Thought, Being, World)

"Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed."
- Edith Hamilton
(Related: Nature, Facts, Human nature, Theories)

"The fullness of life is in the hazards of life."
- Edith Hamilton
(Related: Life)

"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."
- Edith Hamilton
(Related: Poetry, Alchemy, Nothing, Pain, Tragedy)

"Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth."
- Edith Hamilton
(Related: Truth, Man, Mind, Rest, Spirit, World)

"Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within."
- Edith Hamilton
(Related: Art, Conflict, Expression, Solution, World)

"A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can."
- Edith Hamilton
(Related: Quality, People, Knowledge, Day, Literature)

"Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active."
- Edith Hamilton
(Related: Faith, Belief)