A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.

— Edith Hamilton

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

— Edith Hamilton

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

— Edith Hamilton

Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

— Edith Hamilton

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

— Edith Hamilton

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

— Edith Hamilton

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

— Edith Hamilton

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education, so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educ

— Edith Hamilton

It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work

— Edith Hamilton

It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are...

— Edith Hamilton