Odyssey Quotes

“we humans, Prometheus’s creations, controlled fire, Zeus feared we wouldn’t need gods to worship and obey; we could abolish our own creators. Zeus was right. We did. And we are Zeus now. We fear the entities we have created. If a Prometheus amongst us were to give AI consciousness, the divine spark, then humanity could become a mythic memory, an origin story for the machines to tell themselves, while we crumble into broken statuary alongside Zeus and his pantheon before us.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“Another day, another island.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“There is scant nutrition to be had from an if.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“Different paths spring from different choices for all.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“While it’s very hard to believe or make sense of fact, fiction is highly credible.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“Sounds like quite a man, this master of yours. Who is he?” “Quite a man? Yes, he’s quite a man. No … you know what? He’s not a man, Odysseus, he’s men. A son, a father, a husband. Well, that’s not unusual, of course. He’s a king. Wise and fair. Judges and rules with solemn justice. But he’s a builder too. Planned and put together his palace almost single-handed. He’s a sailor. I’ve seen him pull on two sail ropes, one with each foot, steering with his elbow on the tiller, and using his hands to whittle a musical pipe. He can tend the flocks and herds as well as I or any countryman. He’s a warrior. Hand to hand, he wrestles like Theseus. Can throw a man three times his weight. The best bowman you ever saw. Shoots like Apollo. Never saw a swordsman his equal either. He can throw a spear farther than anyone. Speaks the tongues of distant lands as if he were born there. And the wit of him, the cunning … ah …” Eumaeus tapped the side of his head. “In there, he has a mind the equal of Hermes for mischief, and of Athena for wisdom. I don’t know where his ideas come from. He can …”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“Während es schwer ist, Fakten zu glauben oder zu verstehen, ist Fiktion in hohem Maße glaubwürdig”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“Self-recrimination makes for a dark atmosphere.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“She will have the kind of depth of beauty only women have. A woman's fine grace. Personality. Charaqcter. No, you needn't worry. Penelope could never match a girl like you for youth and beauty. You might even think her ugly. When i see her, I will know that she is Penelope. My wife.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“you’ve enriched yourselves beyond the needs of any man – again”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“Never abandon hope. Hope is a prayer. A prayer that the gods may yet answer.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“We are all the children of the gods”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“No! We are children of PROMETHEUS”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“It’s not enough that you allow the walls of my beloved Troy to be pierced by the deceit of the vile ULYSSES,fn8 but the city and its people must be destroyed with a violence and cruelty such as has never been seen. All a punishment for my beauty.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“The cosmic laws of Time, Fate, Necessity, Justice and Retribution were inescapable and unstoppable.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“Yes, I am allowed the 'honor' of the Elysian Fields. Yes, I tread the meadows of asphodel. Yes, they call me 'prince,' and praise me as some kind of hero. But I tell you this, Odysseus..." He almost snarled these words out. "I would rather live as a dirt-poor peasant, eking out the most wretched living tilling barren soil, than ruler of this whole kingdom. It's a kingdom of the dead. You see their forms, you hear their voices, but they are... we are... There is no life, no joy, no hope. The peach is sucked of all its juice. There is no meaning here. So you damned well LIVE, old friend. Leave this cursed place and live every day with all the force and fire you can summon.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey

“humankind moved on from the gods, the gods no longer appeared before us or demanded sacrifice of us, no longer mated with us, commanded us, cursed us, or cast us up to the heavens as constellations. Except they are still here. Whenever we find our reason wrangling with our instinct, Apollo and Dionysus are contending within us. We contain them all: the cheek and cheerfulness of Hermes, the wisdom of Athena, the rage of Ares, the homeliness of Hestia, the craft of Hephaestus, the pride and propriety of Hera, the majesty of Zeus, and the capricious inconsistency, beauty, savagery, insight, glory, and madness of the whole blessed pantheon.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“As the Italians neatly phrase it, se non è vero, è ben trovato—even if it isn’t quite true, it’s well founded.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“If we humans, Prometheus’s creations, controlled fire, Zeus feared we wouldn’t need gods to worship and obey; we could abolish our own creators. Zeus was right. We did. And we are Zeus now. We fear the entities we have created. If a Prometheus among us were to give AI consciousness, the divine spark, then humanity could become a mythic memory, an origin story for the machines to tell themselves, while we crumble into broken statuary alongside Zeus and his pantheon before us.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“fire the spirit”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey: The Greek Myths Reimagined

“Odysseus was nothing if not a remote father.”
― Stephen Fry, Odyssey: The Greek Myths Reimagined