best quotations about
Greeks |
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Quotations
 | I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 70 likes |
 | For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator (speech before the Reichstag, 4 May 1941) 62 likes |
 | Our race was crucified many times, but, here we are, still alive. — Theodoros Kolokotronis, 1770-1843, Hero of the Greek Revolution 27 likes |
| Greeks, God has signed our Liberty and will not take his signature back. — Theodoros Kolokotronis, 1770-1843, Hero of the Greek Revolution 18 likes |
 | There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian. — Thales of Miletus, 643-548 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 13 likes |
| The Greeks are crazy but their God is wise. — Theodoros Kolokotronis, 1770-1843, Hero of the Greek Revolution 12 likes |
 | The Greeks offered the East philosophy, the East offered Greece religion; religion won because philosophy was a luxury for the few, religion was a consolation for the many. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 9 likes |
 | The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? This question is one which ought to be studied. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 8 likes |
 | Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 8 likes |
| The Greek might admit that honesty is the best policy, but he tries everything else first. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 8 likes |
 | Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton, 1834-1902, English historian 8 likes |
 | Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium. 7 likes |
 | Among all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt life's dream most beautifully. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 6 likes |
| If you look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out into the Mediterranean Sea. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 5 likes |
 | Greece is a corpse devoured by its myths. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 4 likes |
 | The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 4 likes |
 | The knowledge of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated thanks to caliph Al-Mamun. He succeeded because he had many translators and spent a lot of money for this project. — Ibn Khaldoun, 1332-1406, Arab historian & sage 4 likes |
 | We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 3 likes |
 | Ancient Greek history is a poem. — François-René de Chateaubriand, 1768-1848, French poet & politician 1 likes |
 | The Gospels are the last and most wonderful expression of Greek genius, as the Iliad was its first expression. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 1 likes |
 | Greece still survives, I think it survives through successive miracles. |
 | We must not forget that in the long twenty-five centuries there has not been one that poetry was not written in the Greek language. |
 | Gods, not wanting to deprive the Greeks of the truth, they gave them poetry. |
 | The unique innovation of the phonetic alphabet released the Greeks from the universal acoustic spill of tribal societies. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | The Greeks – who knew everything – knew that immortality without youth was to be feared rather than desired. |
 | In the Bible there are images, myths, a religion; only there is no thought, no reflection. It was the Greeks who first really started to think, the first to create a sophisticated civilization. |
 | Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit. |
| The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being. |
 | He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times. — Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician |
 | All the best men have said has been said in Greek. |
Latin Quotes
 | Be afraid of the Greeks bearing gifts. Timeo Danaos et dona ferrentes. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 27 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Here lie the ashes of a people which used to be an eternal flame. — Kostas Varnalis, 1883-1974, Greek poet 6 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Homer has educated Greece. Όμηρος την Ελλάδα επεπαιδεύκει. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
| Be afraid of the Greeks bearing gifts. Φοβού τους Δαναούς και δώρα φέροντας. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 5 likes |
 | You Greeks are always children, and there is no Greek who is old. Έλληνες αεί παίδές εστε, γέρων δε Έλλην ουκ έστιν. — Herodotus, 480-420 BC, Ancient Greek historian, the “ father of History” (Egyptian priests to Solon) 4 likes |
