List of Benjamin Jowett Quotes

Jowett, In His Day, Did Probably More Than Any Other Single Man To Let Some Fresh Air Into The Exhausted Atmosphere Of The [oxford] Common Rooms, And To Widen The Intellectual Horizons Of The Place.

We Can't Search Or Attain Well Being, Wealth, Studying, Justice Or Kindness Usually. Action Is All The Time Particular, Concrete, Individualized, Distinctive.

Nowhere Probably Is There More True Feeling, And Nowhere Worse Taste, Than In A Churchyard - Both As Regards The Monuments And The Inscriptions. Scarcely A Word Of True Poetry Anywhere.

Plato's Dialogues Bear At Least Some Similarities To The Classical Plays.

If You Don't Find A God By Five O'clock This Afternoon You Must Leave The College.

Young Men Make Great Mistakes In Life; For One Thing, They Idealize Love Too Much.

I Am Not Blaming The Past. ... But I Want The Peace Of God To Settle On The Future.

My Dear Child, You Must Believe In God Despite What The Clergy Tells You.

All Translation Is A Compromise - The Effort To Be Literal And The Effort To Be Idiomatic.

Research ! A Mere Excuse For Idleness; It Has Never Achieved, And Will Never Achieve Any Results Of The Slightest Value.

We Cannot Seek Or Attain Health, Wealth, Learning, Justice Or Kindness In General. Action Is Always Specific, Concrete, Individualized, Unique.

One Man Is As Good As Another Until He Has Written A Book.