In the Iliad noble heroes move inexorably, by way of a combination of choice and of forces beyond their control, toward destructio...n and dissolution. We are left with mourning, honour, endurance, and pity. In the Odyssey a somewhat dubiously heroic hero wins his way through various fantastical hazards by means of trickery and ingenuity. The Odyssey is not exclusive; it has room for travel, for rustics and servants, for low life, and for dastardly villains. Its overall movement is away from war and from barbarity towards prosperity and peace, cen tred on the wife and a happy domestic scene.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that, ...owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of "unperturbedness" or quietude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no call for indignation or resentment at anyone whatsoever inquiring, holding, or propounding views concerning the d...ivine, for it is not the authority of the disputant, but the truth of the disputation that is in the request.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You punish crimes committed, with us the thought of crime is a sin; you fear the voice of witness, we the sole voice of conscience....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As on the highroad he who walks lightest walks with most ease, so on the journey of life more happiness comes from lightening... the needs by poverty than from panting under a burden of wealth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God cannot be seen: he is too bright for sight; nor grasped: he is too pure for touch; nor measured: for he is beyond all sense, i...nfinite, measureless, his dimension known to himself alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »