Quotes by Gilbert Murray - Page 1

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
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Ancient
Greek
Literature
Reading
Easy Reading
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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
Gilbert Murray / Author
Heroic
Higher
Saga
Express
Fictitious
Make Up
Plots
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The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
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Facts
Greek
Limits
Misunderstanding
Caused
Attempts
Limit
Meaning Of
Strictly
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It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
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Great Service
Grows
Literature
Conceived
Doubtless
Services
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Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.
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Analysis
Deceived
Granted
Latter
Sometimes
Thinking
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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
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Definitions
Grammar
Greek
Language
Unconscious
Dictionaries
Dominated
Ours
Trained
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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.
Gilbert Murray / Author
Age
Imagination
Fashion
Greece
Vary
Ages
Central
Direction
Fashions
Struck
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Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.
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Aim
Normal
Style
Aims
Closely
Equivalent
Followed
Reproduce
Translated
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The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
Gilbert Murray / Author
Happiness
Men
Common
Common Man
Complicated
Heard
Involved
Liberty
Mercy
Persons
Quarrels
World
Life Man World
Life Happiness Man
Absolute
Seen
Few
Throughout
Whom
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A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.
Gilbert Murray / Author
Men
Horse
Real
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Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
Gilbert Murray / Author
Men
Be Careful
Believe
Body
Careful
Comfort
Conquer
Dangerous
Determined
Enemy
Giving
Promotion
Soul
Uncomfortable
Who Cares
Little
Believes
Cares
Dealing
Simply
Gives
His
Right
Purchase
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The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing "sport" and kills for the pleasure of killing; not for food, not for self-defense, but just to satisfy some primitive instinct, once necessary and now perverted.
Gilbert Murray / Author
Men
Sports
Fighting
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