Edith Hamilton Quotes About Literature

• Cuando la libertad que más deseaban era la libertad de la responsabilidad, entonces Atenas dejó de ser libre y nunca volvió a serlo.

  Edith Hamilton

  Freedom, Responsibility, Libertarian Party

  Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

• Sólo un poeta puede escribir una tragedia. Porque la tragedia no es otra cosa que el dolor transmutado en exaltación por la alquimia de la poesía.

  Edith Hamilton

  Pain, Writing, Tragedy

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

• 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

  Real, Writing, People

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”

• 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

  Men, Animal, Mind

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

• The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

  Edith Hamilton

  Father, Mind, Generations

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

• A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

  Edith Hamilton

  Real, Book, People

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”

• ... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.

  Edith Hamilton

  Pensamiento, Gente, Literatura

  Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

• Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

  Edith Hamilton

  Nature, Literature, Facts

  The Roman Way Comedy's Mirror

• When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

  Edith Hamilton

  Mind, Literature, Facts

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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