| Author Quoted | Werner Wilhelm Jaeger |
| Title Quoted | Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture / Gilbert Highet (translator) |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1960/12/24 |
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| Quotation | Snow is melting a little. Quiet afternoon of Christmas Eve. Read a book of Newman's romantic but fundamentally sound essay on St. Benedict. Finished first volume of Paideia this morning. Must read Thucydides. All I can remember of it is the general with nephritis in Sicily. The total lack of perspective with which we read Greek authors, word by word, at school. |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 78 |
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