Gladys Pyle quotes

“The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject.”
-- Gladys Pyle

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“Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.”

“I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.”

“We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....”

“Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.”

Source : "The History of Ancient Philosophy". Book by Heinrich Ritter, translared by Alexander James William Morrison, Volume 1, 1838.

“I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.”

“Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.”

“If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.”

“Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed”

“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”

“The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.”