#greek

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#always #back #blaming #crisis #financial

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#consumerism #free-will #god #goddess #greek

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#comes #famous #giving #good #good advice

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies. ↗

— Edward Bond

#greeks #said #their #things #tragedies

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. ↗

— Edward Bond

#being #greeks #human #human being #meant

Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think most people would argue that probably more needs to be done on that front, and they've just begun to take the first steps to accepting that there's going to have to be much closer economic integration in Europe. ↗

— Vince Cable

#argue #begun #closer #debt #done

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy. ↗

— Cat Cora

#cooked #cooking #food #greek #healthy

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#greek #illiterate #like #looking #man

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ↗

— Diogenes

#am #citizen #greek #i #i am

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#believe #chaos #darkness #greek #greek mythology