Famous Quotes - Tags - Hellenism

  • Both peoples had a clearly defined consciousness of being different from all other peoples: The... More
  • Far less brilliant, original, and versatile than the Greeks, the Romans were content to borrow... More
  • Hebraism contains no eternal realm of essence, which Greek philosophy was to fabricate, through... More
  • Hebrew culture is based on a single book, the Word of God. Greek culture, by contrast, is based... More
  • In a word, the Roman lacked the humanitas (the sure sense of human values and of the part played... More
  • So little are the Homeric heroes presented as developing or having developed, that most of... More
  • Socratic man believes that all virtue is cognition, and that all that is needed to do what is... More
  • The Greeks have given to the world the science of history; the Israelites gave to the world... More
  • The Greeks were the classicists of antiquity and they are still today the preeminent classicists.... More
  • The uppermost idea with Hellenism is to see things as they really are; the uppermost ideas with... More

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