Classical Philologist

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy

1844–1900

"I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer."

🇺🇸Revilo P. Oliver

Education

1908–1994

"Revilo Oliver site maintained by Kevin Alfred Strom"

🇬🇧Richard Bentley

Religion

1662–1742

"The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms."

Henry George Liddell

Education

1811–1898

"I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school."

🇬🇧Frederic G. Kenyon

Politics

1863–1952

"No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss."

"A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet is treading on uncharted territory and does so at his peril."

🇨🇭John Pentland Mahaffy

Literature

1839–1919

"With Alexander the stage of Greek influence spread across the world."

"Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece..."

🇺🇸Gilbert Highet

Literature

1906–1978

"The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning."

"An inferior artist's only chance of giving pleasure."

🇬🇧George Long (scholar)

Literature

1800–1879

"A few have a great power of listening and attending, but they are only few, and this power gives them a superiority over those who cannot attend."

🇦🇺Gilbert Murray

Education

1866–1957

"signed the letter of protest against Britain joining the war then doubted, and was finally convinced the other way by Grey's speech on August 3rd ."

William Hepworth Thompson

Education

1810–1886

"We are none of us infallible—not even the youngest of us."

"Jasper Griffin, Faculty of Classics, Oxford University"

🇺🇸William H. Crogman

Education

1841–1931

"Is the object of his thought lofty in its character, so is he. Is it low, so is he. We rise or fall, we ascend or descend, according to our ideals."

Richard Porson

Literature

1759–1808

"To a gentleman, who, at the close of a fierce dispute with Porson, exclaimed, "My opinion of you is most contemptible, Sir"; he retorted, "I never knew an opinion of yours that was not contemptible."