"An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise"
- Robert South
About this Quote
This quote by Robert South is a reflection on the concept of progress and the development of civilization. South is suggesting that the excellent thinker Aristotle was only able to attain his success because of the work of Adam, the first guy in the Bible. He is likewise suggesting that Athens, the birthplace of democracy and the cradle of Western civilization, was just able to become the fantastic city it was since of the foundation of Paradise. South is indicating that without the work of Adam and the foundation of Paradise, the great achievements of Aristotle and Athens would not have actually been possible. He is highlighting the value of progress and the development of civilization, and how it is built on the work of those who came before us. South is recommending that we must be grateful for the accomplishments of our predecessors, and that we ought to make every effort to build on their work in order to produce a better future.
"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art"
"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo"
"My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India"
"So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon"
"A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence"
