The Hellenistic Age Quotes

“The man brought into the Christian community was brought into a stream of dynamic life going through time towards a definite consummation, a divine event, in the future.”
― John Bagnell Bury, The Hellenistic Age: Aspects of Hellenistic Civilization

“The cry for freedom arises with an urgency which will not be denied. It was to men in this mood in the Hellenistic world that philosophy came, to show them the way of deliverance. Why were they entangled in this unrest, dragged hither and thither by forces outside their control? The answer was to be found in the distribution of interest. Every interest man had in any object was a filament, as it were, going out from his heart and attaching itself to that object, so that if the object was unstable and elusive he was pulled miserably after it. The way of freedom therefore was to cut all this strands going out in all directions and attaching to al multitude of objects. (...) They were all agreed that deliverance was to be found in reducing the field of interest.”
― John Bagnell Bury, The Hellenistic Age: Aspects of Hellenistic Civilization