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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8720e32 | The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader. | Arthur Helps | ||
| 3d33812 | Hesiod's comments, though certainly a product of a mindset that stretches back millennia, are undoubtedly misogynistic since he says that Philotes and Apate belong to Aphrodite and all women. This point of view is hardly surprising; after all, it was Hesiod who first documented the myth of Pandora, she who unleashed all evil on the world. In fact, prior to the creation of "woman", humans did not know death. So, on the advent of woman's entr.. | Charles River Editors | ||
| b80cbd1 | In comparison with the justice exercised with sovereign power by traditional chiefs, the kings of justice, by the powerful of crooked judgments, Hesiodic justice, going from the decree of Zeus to the order of the world, and from this to peasant vigilance and exactness, to the interplay of good understanding and debts repaid, calls for a whole transfer of sovereignty. Calls for it, but does not record it, for at the time of justice is inst.. | Michel Foucault | ||
| 955ec9a | So potter with potter contendeth: the hewer of wood with the hewer of wood: the beggar is jealous of the beggar, the ministrel is jealous of the ministrel. | Alexander William Mair | ||
| 21343e2 | The principle of competition is, as Hesiod pointed out long ago, built in the very roots of the world; there is something in the nature of things that calls for a real victory and real defeat. --IRVING BABBITT | Gurcharan Das | ||
| 54a1126 | Evil one may attain easily and in abundance: smooth is the way and it dewlleth very nigh. But in front of virtue have the dealthless gods set sweat: long is the way thereto and steep and rough at first. But when one hath reached the top, easy is it thereafter despite its hardness. | Alexander William Mair | ||
| fc5385d | Christ is, then, the perfect art work in the sense of that reality in whom is realised those goals that all artistic making has as its explicit or implicit ends. Because he is infinite meaning, life and being perfectly synthesised with finite form, the cave painters at Lascaux, or Hesiod penning his hymns, or Beethoven working on his last quartets, were all gesturing towards him though they realised it not. | beauty christ incarnation theology-of-art | Aidan Nichols O.P. | |
| 4e99b6c | In pointing out this parallel, I do not suggest that Hesiod is somehow the Greek equivalent of Moses or that his Theogony is to be granted the same status as Genesis. | Louis Markos | ||
| 0cbba9b | And here I would note the great benefit of party distinctions in saving the people at large the trouble of thinking. Hesiod divides mankind into three classes--those who think for themselves, those who think as others think, and those who do not think at all. The second class comprises the great mass of society; for most people require a set creed and a file-leader. Hence the origin of party, which means a large body of people, some few of .. | Washington Irving | ||
| 4cb8210 | Hesiod, | Rick Riordan | ||
| d879f56 | For if aught untoward happen in the township, the neighbours come ungirt, the kinsmen gird themselves. | Alexander William Mair | ||
| 96440ff | Harvest Do not let a woman with a sexy rump deceive you with wheedling and coaxing words; she is after your barn. -Hesiod Shall we gather the sunset pluck what is ripe harness the cicada's song? Even if this isn't the season of new love let us remember the buds and reap what we can. No crop is too small. No harvest too lean. The grain will yield. So scatter and slash call in the cows and let us milk them all dry. Plow as you will. Bu.. | Nancy Boutilier | ||
| a366e7d | of the offspring of the serpentine Titans Phorkys and Keto. She and two other sisters were known as the Graiai, (literally, the Grays). Hesiod wrote: "they were born with fair faces and were gray from birth, and were gods who are immortal and men call Graiai, the gray sisters, Pemphredo robed in beauty and Enyo robed in saffron."--Hesiod's Theogony 270-273." | David Flynn | ||
| 479c8e4 | Before there was light there was only darkness. Before there was light there was only what the Greek poet Hesiod called the "yawning nothingness," and from within this perfect eclipse the uncaused First Cause moved, constructively interfering with a portion of that eternal void which existed before space and time were named with a temperature. This unending, infinite bleakness--a blackness that the authors of the Vedas collectively identifi.. | John Zande | ||
| 63933dd | Before there was light there was, after all, only darkness. Before there was light there was only what the Greek poet Hesiod called the "yawning nothingness," and from within this perfect eclipse the uncaused First Cause moved, constructively interfering with a portion of that eternal void which existed before space and time were named with a temperature. This unending, infinite bleakness--a blackness that the authors of the Vedas collectiv.. | John Zande | ||
| 9d34fc8 | Tact is the result of refined sympathy. | Arthur Helps | ||
| c0cb071 | Beaumont claimed that many events, places and characters mentioned in the Old Testament covertly allude to the British Isles. After detailed investigations of every island, headland, estuary, river, megalithic site, petroglyph, city and town in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, after similar investigations in Europe and Asia, and after a thorough analysis of Homer, Hesiod and other Greek mythographers and historians, Beaumont was convin.. | Michael Tsarion | ||
| a03b5db | Moses and Hesiod, David and Sappho, Deborah and Tyrtaeus, Isaiah and Homer, Delphi and Jerusalem, Pythian tripod and Cherubin-sanctuary, prophets and oracles, psalms and elegy-for us, they all lie peacefully in one box, they all rest peacefully in one grave, they all have one and the same human origin, they all have one and the same significance-human, transitory and belonging to the past. All the clouds have dispersed. The tears and sighs .. | Paul Johnson | ||
| 48c748c | Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity." Hesiod, Works and Days" | Carole B. Shmurak | ||
| 8820b54 | We bitch about our difficulties along the rough surface of our path, we curse every sharp stone underneath, until at some point in our maturation, we finally look down to see that they are diamonds. | Esther Perel | ||
| 33fd95e | To be a writer is a monstrously arrogant act. It presumes that you should be listened to for pages on end... But there is much in the culture to clip the wings of arrogance, mute assertion, and encourage speedy consensus. | Phillip Lopate | ||
| 8b885a6 | Maybe it's the fault of our language but dreams are innocent and pictorial. Then let our dreams speak for us side by side, leg over leg, an electroencephalographic kiss | poetry | Phillip Lopate | |
| b0e9635 | What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next sentence, paragraph, and thematic problem it has set for itself. The other element that keeps me reading nonfiction happily is an evolved, entertaining, elegant, or at least highly intentional literary style. The pressure of style should be brought to bear on every passage. "Consciousness plus s.. | Phillip Lopate | ||
| 74bc4c6 | The Japanese believe that sadness comes from an awareness of the fragility of life at the same time one is captivated by its transient beauty. The cherry blossoms. But that is a very superficial understanding of sadness, may I say. True sadness arises when we realize that the world around us is imperishable, and rather ugly. | Phillip Lopate | ||
| 5572c90 | Part of the storytelling ability is simply the anticipation of boredom. | Phillip Lopate | ||
| 41a9042 | No man ever praised two persons equally--and pleased them both. | Arthur Helps | ||
| ab34ab4 | Music is geometry in time. | Arthur Honegger | ||
| a095585 | And Kush begot Nimrod; He was first to be a Hero in the Land.... And the beginning of his kingdom: Babel and Erech and Akkad. | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| ad05b83 | Mountain of the young gods" in the environs of Kadesh, and two peaks of El and Asherah--Shad Elim, Shad Asherath u Rahim--in the south of the peninsula. It was to that area at mebokh naharam ("Where the two bodies of water begin"), kerev apheq tehomtam ("Near the cleft of the two seas") that El had retired in his old age. The texts, we believe, describe the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula. There was, we conclude, a Gateway Mount on the .. | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| f809f84 | when civilization began, the gods who were worshipped--the focus of the act of being "religious"--were none other than the Anunnaki/Nefilim, who were the source of all manner of knowledge, alias science, on Earth." | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| 010fb8d | There the original Sumerian Epic of Creation was translated and revised so that Marduk, the Babylonian national god, was assigned a celestial counterpart. By renaming Nibiru "Marduk" in the Babylonian versions of the creation story, the Babylonians usurped for Marduk the attributes of a supreme "God of Heaven and Earth." This version--the most intact one found so far--is known as Enuma elish" | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| 9718db7 | A world where nothing is had for nothing. | Arthur Hugh Clough | ||
| 2dcc24d | So in the sinful streets, abstracted and alone,I with my secret self held communing of mine own. | Arthur Hugh Clough | ||
| d69d27a | they recorded a tale of creation that matches, in some parts word for word, the tale of Genesis. George Smith of the British Museum pieced together the broken tablets that held the creation texts and published, in 1876, The Chaldean Genesis; it conclusively established that there indeed existed an Akkadian text of the Genesis tale, written in the Old Babylonian dialect, that preceded the biblical text by at least a thousand years. | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| 618f0e5 | Before the Incas and the Chimu and the Mochica, a culture named by scholars Chavin flourished in the mountains that lie in northern Peru between the coast and the Amazon basin. One of its first explorers, Julio C. Tello (Chavin and other works) called it "the matrix of Andean civilization." It takes us back to at least 1500 B.C.; and like that of the Olmec civilization in Mexico at the same time," | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| 8d05b7a | The Sumerian pantheon was headed by an "Olympian Circle" of twelve, for each of these supreme gods had to have a celestial counterpart, one of the twelve members of the Solar System. Indeed, the names of the gods and their planets were one and the same (except when a variety of epithets were used to describe the planet or the god's attributes). Heading the pantheon was the ruler of Nibiru, ANU whose name was synonymous with "Heaven," for he.. | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| d56d3de | explains why "The Adam" was created: "For there was no Adam to till the land." | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| e578a21 | correct reading emerges: When, in the beginning, The Lord created the Heaven and the Earth, The Earth, not yet formed, was in the void, and there was darkness upon Tiamat. Then the Wind of the Lord swept upon its waters and the Lord commanded, "Let there be lightning!" and there was a bright light." | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| aa8c4d3 | I will produce a lowly Primitive; "Man" shall be his name. I will create a Primitive Worker; He will be charged with the service of the gods, that they might have their ease." | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| 6160fe7 | Mineralmaster, Ninurta | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| 7bd6938 | The location of this entryway was forgotten in the following centuries, and when the Moslem caliph AI Mamoon attempted to enter the pyramid in 820 A.D., he employed an army of masons, blacksmiths and engineers to pierce the stones and tunnel his way into the pyramid's core. What prompted him was both a scientific quest and a lust for treasure; for he was apprised of ancient legends that the pyramid contained a secret chamber wherein celesti.. | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| d5feb23 | day, us. That the Bible's been saying so all along, clay being what Genesis meant by the "dust of the ground" that formed man, is obvious. What is not so obvious is how often we have been saying it to one another, and without knowing it." | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| 281c656 | Let it be clarified here that neither the Akkadians nor the Sumerians had called these visitors to Earth gods. It is through later paganism that the notion of divine beings or gods has filtered into our language and thinking. When we employ the term here, it is only because of its general acceptance and usage that we do so. | Zecharia Sitchin | ||
| ca20c8c | That which for all time construction shall determine I have laid out; Away from Eridu, where dry land begins, my quarters shall be, Laarsa will be its name, a place for directing it shall become. On the banks of the Burannu, the River of Deep Waters, will it be located, A twin thereof a city shall in future arise, Lagash I shall name it. Between the two on the plans a line have I drawn, Sixty leagues thereafter a healing city shall come int.. | Zecharia Sitchin |