What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a litt….
Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal..
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns..
In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. ….
Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimes….
I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really a….
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done..
Without Greek studies there is no education..
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought..
Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, final….
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word..
The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not v….
Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry..
Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians..
If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now..
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a….
Plays are just all sort of playful asides, and there's a great deal of reference here to Greek mythology, plays, and dramas. The idea of the chorus i….
The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom..
SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body pl….
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the writer,….
In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example ..