Edith Hamilton: Human

Edith Hamilton was American teacher and writer. Explore interesting quotes on human.

Edith Hamilton: 52 quotes0 likes

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

Source: The Roman Way (1932), Ch. 1

“Great literature, past or present, is the expression of great knowledge of the human heart; great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within…”

Source: The Greek Way (1930), Ch. 1

“The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest, where all human things…have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.”

Source: The Greek Way (1930), Ch. 1

“Fundamental to everything the [ancient] Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.”

Introduction
The Echo of Greece (1957)