Author World Man Mind Rest 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
Tragedy Pain Poetry Nothing 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
Thought Being World To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated. - Edith Hamilton
Art World Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. - Edith Hamilton
Fathers World Will 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
Chaos Mind When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. - Edith Hamilton
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. - Anna Quindlen
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. - Francis Bacon
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. - Jack Herer