Aeschylus Quotes

Aeschylus is not impersonal but transpersonal, a believer in fate and moral responsibility at the same time .

— Rollo May, in Love and Will (1969), p. 136

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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108) Aeschylus: It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size. (tr. Dillon 1995, Perseus )

— Frogs, line 1058-1059

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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

— G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (London 1941).Quotations by Hardy. Gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved on 27 November 2013.

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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108) Aeschylus: It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size. (tr. Dillon 1995, Perseus )

Aristophanes

— Frogs, line 1058-1059

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