When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
Edith Hamilton quote Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active
Edith Hamilton quote 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 quote Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed
Edith Hamilton quote When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again
Edith Hamilton quote To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is educated.
Edith Hamilton quote Biography
1867-1963, writer and educator
