Famous quotes containing the words greeks and/or living:
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In the umbra, the tunnel, when the mind went wombtomb, then it was real thought and real living, living thought.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)