Jane Ellen Harrison quotes

Jane Ellen Harrison quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love.”
-- Jane Ellen Harrison

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“To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.”
-- Jane Ellen Harrison

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“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”
“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”
“If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.”
“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”
“We are not separate. Our sense of separateness is superficial and exist only in the physical dimension. In our human element, we are not separate; weâ€™re very much connected. Every other human being is just as precious as we are, and worthy of as much respect and love and consideration. This understanding needs to manifest in our conduct in each moment. This is the part of the Work that will transform you.”
“It takes a lot of strength to hold onto and care for the things we love, so why is it that god seems to have made humans unable to conjure up that degree of power and love?”

Source : Interview with Douglas Waller, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2002.
“One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.”
“Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store; The absent friends remembered be, in all thatâ€™s sung or said, And Love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead.”

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