Quotes of Gilbert Murray - somelinesforyou

“ Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes, or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours? ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours? ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes, or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ 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

“ Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes, or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes, or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes, or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ 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. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes, or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ 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. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours? ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ 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. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ 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. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes, or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ 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. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes, or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes, or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes, or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes, or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. ”

- Gilbert Murray
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