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From The Saviors of God (1927; English 1960):

"We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have
named this circle God. We might have given it any other name
we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light,
Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval, life."

Greece has an exquisite modern philosophical background. Wherever you go, each island or mountain you visit, you will discover a very singular moral status. Sometimes, Greece is incongruous with the characterisation " a ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Greece"

Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)

The Last Death of the Year (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #6)

Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It

Medusa: The Girl Behind the Myth (Illustrated Gift Edition)

Daughters of Olympus (Retold: The Grecian Women)

One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

The Old Ducks' Club (Old Ducks Club, #1)

Daughter of Chaos (The Dark Pantheon, #1)

A Spartan's Sorrow (Retold: The Grecian Women)

House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2)

Queens of Themiscyra (Retold: The Grecian Women)

Και οι νεκροί ας θάψουν τους νεκρούς τους

The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World

Конец режима: Как закончились три европейские диктатуры

Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great

The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance

Daughters of Bronze (A Novel of Troy, #2)

Πράγματα που σκέφτεται η παρθένος Μαρία καπνίζοντας κρυφά στο μπάνιο

The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3)

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Quotes Tagged “Greece”

“ The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable. ”
― Thomas H. Huxley, Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays

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“ Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties? ...more ”
― Roman Payne

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