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Thomas Cahill – amerykański pisarz i naukowiec, autor kilku bestsellerów.

✵ 1940
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„Ocalenie w chrześcijaństwie psychologicznej tożsamości irlandzkiej jest jednym z cudów irlandzkich dziejów.”

Thomas Cahill książka Jak Irlandczycy ocalili cywilizację

Źródło: Jak Irlandczycy ocalili cywilizację..., cyt. za: Maria Janion, Niesamowita Słowiańszczyzna, Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2007, str. 14.

„Dzięki takim właśnie [chrześcijańskim] kopistom weszliśmy w posiadanie zasobnego skarbca literatury staroirlandzkiej, najstarszej zachowanej kultury europejskiej – powstałej w języku rdzennym miejscowej ludności.”

Thomas Cahill książka Jak Irlandczycy ocalili cywilizację

Źródło: Jak Irlandczycy ocalili cywilizację. Nieznana historia heroicznej roli Irlandii w dziejach Europy po upadku Cesarstwa Rzymskiego, przeł. A. Barańczak, Poznań 1999, str. 161.

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“Unfortunately, much of the post-Homeric poetry—called lyric poetry because it was usually sung to a lyre—was lost in the upheavals of subsequent centuries, especially in the depredations and decay that would follow the barbarian incursions into the Greco-Roman world in the fifth century A. D.”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch. III The Poet: How to Party

“The Greeks never thought to unite all Greek speakers in one political union. Because each Greek gloried in his singular excellence—and each Greek clan gloried similarly—it was hard enough to unite a city. Each city or polis—from which come our words politics, politician, metropolis—thought itself unrivaled in some essential quality and reveled in its reputation.”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.IV The Politician and the Playwright: How to Rule

“The Greek world will continue in almost constant cultural revolution from the time of Homer to the day Rome brings Greece to its knees in the second century B. C. …the longest trajectory of fluid development in any society known to history.”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch. III The Poet: How to Party

“…the turns of the screw that Sophocles administered throughout the play [Oedipus Tyrannos] must have been received with sharp pain… because these cocky, princely, Oedipal Greeks were being made to feel acutely the limitations of human society—in which no political leader, no matter how gifted or courageous, can remain a savior forever, in which every man must come to know that he is no hero but essentially a flawed and luckless figure and that "the pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all."”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.IV The Politician and the Playwright: How to Rule

“They [the Greeks] had become an essentially secular people.”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian

“More than a billion people in our world today survive on less than $370 a year, while Americans, who constitute five percent of the world's population, purchase fifty percent of its cocaine.”

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Źródło: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VII The End of the World

“Like fish who do not know they swim in water, we are seldom aware of the atmosphere of the times through which we move, how strange and singular they are. But when we approach another age, its alienness stands out before us, almost as if that were its most obvious quality…”

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Introduction
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)

“Of the many people's of the earth, the Romans may have had the most boring religion of all. …basically a businessman's religion of contractual obligations.”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian

“Just as the Judeo-Christian world had learned the Greek language and internalized Greek categories, the Greco-Roman world gradually abandoned its dying gods and became monotheistic.”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian

“Whether or not Freud was right when he muttered in exasperation that the Irish were the only people who could not be helped by psychoanalysis, there can be no doubt of one thing: the Irish will never change.”

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Źródło: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VI What Was Found

“Solon was a sort of Athenian Franklin D. Roosevelt… He was an aristocratic reformer who understood instinctively that the aristocracy's monopoly on power had to be loosened and some power given to the lesser orders if social peace was to be shored up.”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.IV The Politician and the Playwright: How to Rule

“More than half of all our biblical commentaries between 650 and 850 were written by Irishmen.”

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Źródło: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VI What Was Found

“Latin literature would almost certainly have been lost without the Irish, and illiterate Europe would hardly have developed its great national literatures without the example of the Irish, the first vernacular literature to be written down.”

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Źródło: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VI What Was Found

“This swaggering behavior has confounded historians, prompting them to wonder if Columbanus was a little off his rocker. But I think we may chalk up this attitude to his Irishness.”

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Źródło: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VI What Was Found

“When Donald Rumsfeld, a practical imperialist if ever there was one, took over the Pentagon, he commissioned a study of how ancient empires maintained their hegemony. Might he more profitably study how they lost all they had gained?”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian

“Whatever we experience in our day, whatever we hope to learn, whatever we most desire, whatever we set out to find, we see that the Greeks have been there before us, and we meet them on their way back.”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian

“Patrick… understood that, though Christianity was not inextricably wedded to Roman custom, it could not survive without Roman literacy.”

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Źródło: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VI What Was Found

“In another of history's terrible ironies, the barbarian influence on Western Christianity enlivened it beyond anything the diluted Greeks of Byzantium were now capable of. The mad barbarians pushed Western Christianity into retaining some of the plastic abundance, the inventive plasticity, the fathomless versatility that had once been incomparably characteristic of the Greeks.”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian

“Whereas elsewhere in Europe, no educated man would be caught dead speaking a vernacular, the Irish thought that all language was game—and too much fun to be deprived of any part of it. They were still too childlike and playful to find any value in snobbery.”

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Źródło: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VI What Was Found

“The worldview that underlay the New Testament was so different from that of the Greeks and the Romans as to be almost its opposite. It was a worldview that stressed not excellence of public achievement but the adventure of a personal journey with God… by imitating God's justice and mercy.”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian

“The pages of most books were of mottled parchment, that is, dried sheepskin, which was universally available—and nowhere more abundant than in Ireland, whose bright green fields still host each April an explosion of new white lambs. Vellum, or calfskin, which was more uniformly white when dried, was used more sparingly for the most honored texts.”

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Źródło: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VI What Was Found

“Human beings never know more than a part, as "through a glass darkly"; and all knowledge comes to us in pieces.”

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Introduction
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)

“The [Greek] myths were… attempting—at a deeper level—to feel the intangible and say the unsayable.”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian

“If we are to be saved, it will not be by Romans but by saints.”

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Źródło: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VII The End of the World

“The high abbesses… had the power to heal, …almost certainly heard confessions, probably ordained clergy, and may even have celebrated Mass.”

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Źródło: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VI What Was Found

“To be without music was, for the ancient Greeks, to be already dead… Ancient Greece was a culture of song.”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch. III The Poet: How to Party

“As… Greek philosophy split into scores of yip-yapping schools, the Greeks became more and more puzzled. They had lost their way philosophically—and the Romans, who were just aping them, had nothing original to propose by way of saving them all from their dilemmas.”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian

“If we could save one word from Greek civilization, it would have to be aretē, excellence. The aristocrats gave themselves their name, the aristoi (the best). It is an open question whether anyone considered himself a member of the kakoi (the worst, the craven, the dumb shits). though this put-down prances everywhere in the surviving literature. …that shame—the paralyzing fear of being numbered among the kakoi—is the hidden engine that ran Greek life.”

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Źródło: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.IV The Politician and the Playwright: How to Rule