Greek

memorial

dad joke

Cockney Rhyming Slang

is, at Socrates' hand, weakened by his asceticism and rationalism. Before Socrates the Greek was a hero of hardness and courage, contest and revelry. He was brave before fate.

is capable of feeling himself swell up to the macrocosm, yet still retains the circumspection to contemplate himself coldly as the reflex of the world.

whilst they feel themselves swell up to the macrocosm, they still retain the circumspection to contemplate themselves coldly as the reflex of the world... they retain that coolheadedness, which dramatic artist possess, when they transform themselves into other bodies, speak out of them, and yet know how to project this transformation outside themselves into written verses. (nietzsche 'philosophy' in the tragic age of the greeks .pdf)

is of all peoples the people that have dreamt the dream of life best.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is a culture whose wisdom bears no fruit but only flowers.

Be not allured by Greek wisdom, for it bears no fruit but only flowers! Yehuda Halevi

is most closely reproduced in temperament by crossing the Scots with the Chinese..

The best chance of reproducing the ancient Greek temperament would be to cross the Scots with the Chinese.

is a dirty and impoverished descendant of a bunch of la-de-da fruit salads who invented democracy and then forgot to use it while walking around like girls.

is a culture whose dress was in essence unartistic; nothing should reveal the body but the body.

DRESS 243 DRINKING Greek dress was in essence unartistic; nothing should reveal the body but the body

greek, n.All

greek