Schliemann Quotes & Sayings

I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon, — Heinrich Schliemann

Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic rubble of millennia and the ruins of morbid palaces, he was completely right to assume the triumphant expression of a discoverer. — Peter Sloterdijk

Talent means energy and persistence and nothing more! — Heinrich Schliemann

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past. — Heinrich Schliemann

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied ... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers. — Heinrich Schliemann

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek. — Heinrich Schliemann