Helena Blavatsky Quotes

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece. But for Greece… we might still have been savages and idolators.

There are two great centers of Hellenism. Athens is the capital of the Kingdom. Constantinople is the great capital, the City, the dream and hope of all Greeks.

It is great to be Greek, because I have one of the best heritages in the world.

There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

In the Making Of book ["300"] there's a guy named Victor Davis Hanson who is a a frickin genius. He's a Greek historian and we showed him the movie because I wanted him to write a forward to the Making Of book. I was a little nervous to be honest, because I wasn't sure how he'd react.

The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greeks said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.