#greeks

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#any #coast #country #early #east

The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#country #euro #greeks #inside #keep

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. ↗

— Thucydides

#cultivate #greeks #loss #lovers #manliness

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside! ↗

— Morris West

#cage #drunk #ever #god #greeks

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

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. ↗

— George Michael

#any #between #connection #ethnic #felt

I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#ancient greeks #athletes #captivated #caught #decades

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#among #definition #enthusiasm #god #greeks

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius. ↗

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

#mathematicians #mathematics #nullity #numbers #zero