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This quote is just one of 8 total Edith Hamilton quotes in our collection. Edith Hamilton is known for saying 'When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.' as well as some of the following quotes.
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
This quote is just one of 8 total Edith Hamilton quotes in our collection. Edith Hamilton is known for saying 'When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.' as well as some of the following quotes.