Edith Hamilton Quotes

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

- Edith Hamilton

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

- Edith Hamilton

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

- Edith Hamilton

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

- Edith Hamilton

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

- Edith Hamilton

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

- Edith Hamilton

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

- Edith Hamilton

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

- Edith Hamilton

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

- Edith Hamilton

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

- Edith Hamilton

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

- Edith Hamilton