Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 20

The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.
John Chrysostom
If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.
Hippocrates
Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless namesof gods and monstersnever understandthat night and day are one
Heraclitus
And empty words are evil.
Homer
But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.
Plato
It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.
Sophocles
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
Anaxagoras
If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros.
Odysseus Elytis
The man who writes has an oppressive and unhappy fate. This is because the nature of his work obliges him to use words; that is, to convert his inner surge into immobility. Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover the meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons. (Report to Greco)
N. Kazantzakis
The only substance that goes in and never leaves, are words
Natasha Tsakos
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
Pythagoras
That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.
Stefanos Livos
These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.
Stefanos Livos
He whom the gods love dies young.
Menander
Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.
Dimitris Mita
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
Sophocles
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth — often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
Hypatia
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
Plutarch
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.
Diogenes Laërtius
In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe.
Arrian
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
G.I. Gurdjieff
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Isocrates
Our vocabulary may become a real time algorithmic word bank. Could you imagine having a conversation like that? Where the meaning of words constantly adapts?
Natasha Tsakos
Once we’ve become Gods, And Superheroes, and Spidermen(ed) through the web of potential, what will be next?
Natasha Tsakos
We are always going somewhereelse
Natasha Tsakos
As we begin to internalize the technological kingdoms we have built, as we progressively become more superhuman, what will differentiate us from machinery?
Natasha Tsakos
How will the performer-audience interaction change, now that we are so used to participating in the lives of strangers?
Natasha Tsakos
We are reaching levels of high experiential comfort and our standards will keep rising. We want to feel, we want to experience, we want to connect, we want intelligence, and we want to play; Ladies and Gentlemen: A new theatre is on its way.
Natasha Tsakos
History is made by those who see beyond what already exists. They see all the things that don’t yet.
Natasha Tsakos
We are all potential of un-excited creativity
Natasha Tsakos
Creativity is not a gift, it’s a mindset that you practice
Natasha Tsakos
The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.
Natasha Tsakos
Creativity is the DNA of innovation, the virus of evolution, the antidote to automation
Natasha Tsakos
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
Heraclitus
I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
Sophocles
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all. -Cassandra
Aeschylus
Character is destiny
Heraclitus
Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution.
Grigoris Deoudis
When Mathematics unfold through Origamis, when video games target Medicine and Education, when architecture embraces nature, when we defy gravity, when physics dance, and dance clubs play Einstein, when we stop playing war, when TV starts saying something, when we produce without wasting, when engineering meets humanity’s primary needs, when all of these are not just casualties, but a standard we all live UP to: Then we’ll know. I’ll know: we really live in the 21st century
Natasha Tsakos
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.
Savitri Devi
Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
Euripides
Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.
Heraclitus
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
Plato
You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.
G.I. Gurdjieff
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
Caterpillars chew their way through ecosystems leaving a path of destruction as they get fatter and fatter. When they finally fall asleep and a chrysalis forms around them, tiny new imaginal cells, as biologists call them, begin to take form within their bodies. The caterpillar’s immune system fights these new cells as though they were foreign intruders, and only when they crop up in greater numbers and link themselves together are they strong enough to survive. Then the caterpillar’s immune system fails and its body dissolves into a nutritive soup which the new cells recycle into their developing butterfly. The caterpillar is a necessary stage but becomes unsustainable once its job is done. There is no point in being angry with it and there is no need to worry about defeating it. The task is to focus on building the butterfly, the success of which depends on powerful positive and creative efforts in all aspects of society and alliances built among those engaged in them.
Elisabet Sahtouris
It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of society’s accepted normalcy
Natasha Tsakos
or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours
Euripides
Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive
Euripides
To embellish reality with makeup, with silk and royal purple, isn’t that what we all should be doing? Beneath the life we live every day the silk and the purple are hiding, waiting for us. A person just has to dare to throw off his everyday clothes, to rip them off and to put on the silk and purple that exist, I know it. But we’re the ones who cover them up. Out of boredom, indifference, fear. Mostly fear. So right from the first moment I met you, my lies were always the truth: in telling them I unveiled the world for you — the hidden world, the true world. You were really the one who lied. You wanted everything to remain untouched, paradise to be paradise, and me angel. But you made a fatal mistake: you never believed me. You never understood why I lied, that through my lies I was giving you a unique gift: the truth. You always tried to control me — out of love, of course. But is there any word more ambiguous than the word “love”?
Margarita Karapanou
...The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patient and ‘saintlike’ to their children. They should truly love their children. And the children will share this love! For the bad attitude of the children, says father Porphyrios, the ones who are usually responsible for it are their parents themselves. The parents don’t help their children by lecturing them and repeating to them ‘advices’, or by making them obeying strict rules in order to impose discipline. If the parents do not become ‘saints’ and truly love their children and if they don’t struggle for it, then they make a huge mistake. With their wrong and/or negative attitude the parents convey to their children their negative feelings. Then their children become reactive and insecure not only to their home, but to the society as well...
Elder Porphyrios
Truly, nothing more resembles God's eyes than the eyes of a child; they see the world for the first time, and create it. Before this, the world is chaos. All creatures - animals, trees, men, stones; everything:forms, colors, voices, smells, lightning flashes - flow unexplained in front of the child's eyes (no, not in front of them, inside them), and he cannot fasten them down, cannot establish order. The child's world is made not of clay, to last, but of clouds. (Report to Greco)
N. Kazantzakis
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
Pythagoras
Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence.
Euripides
How is having a super orgasm going to increase the knowledge of Jesus Christ?
Mary D. Brooks
You can learn a lot from a professional baseball player, if you can get one, which obviously you can't.
Dimitra Ekmektsis
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
G.I. Gurdjieff
We are to blame if reality does not take the form we desire. Whatever we have not desired with sufficient strength, that we call nonexistent. Desire it, imbrue it with your blood, your sweat, your tears, and it will take on a body. Reality is nothing more than the chimera subjected to our desire and our suffering.
Nikos Kazantzakis