01/Greek is everywhere

The Greek and Chinese language, are the only languages with a continuative vivid presence, from the same people and the same ground for 4.000 years. All the languages are considered as "crypto-greek", which have borrowed abundantly from the Mother of languages. Greek. (Francisco Adrados, spanish Linguist)

The english language is to 12-15% of greek origin. Even 10% of the spanish language is greek.
Greek has played a huge role in the development of the european languages.

Greek is the language of science and medicine. “The Greek is the perfect language. Often one finds that a thought can be made with ease and grace in Greek, but is difficult and heavily in Latin, English, French or German. It is the perfect language because it expresses the thoughts in the best people." G. Murray (Professor of Greek Language at Oxford University)

Here some quotes by great individuals about the Greek language:

Voltaire: “May the Greek language be common for all people.”

Goethe: “I heard at St Peter's the Holy Gospel in all the languages. The Greek language reverberated like a bright star in the night.”

Jacqueline de Romilly (contemporary French academic and writer): “Ancient Greece offers us a language which I will say is ecumenical. Everyone should learn Greek, because the Greek language helps us first and foremost to understand our own language.”

Karl Marx: “The knowledge of the Greek language is the essential foundation of high cultural cultivation.”

M. Ventris ("English scientist who deciphered Linear B script"): "The ancient Greek language was and is the superior of all older and newer languages."  

Wandruska (Professor of Linguistics, Univ. Vienna): "European languages seem as dialects of the Greek."

Hellen Keler (the famous blind American author): "As the violin is the most perfect musical instrument, so is the Greek language."

H.F. Kitto (England University professor):  "All branches of literature and science begin with the Greeks. The Greek language is the purest and the richest in the world."

Greek has the wisest and most insightful etymology ever, giving us the ability to understand the deeper meaning of the words and at the same time making us curious about their brilliant construction. They are didactical and stimulate us intellectually at once.

The word for “Bus” in greek leoforío(λεωφορείο), literally means “people bearer” and the word peirúni(πειρούνι), which means fork comes from the verb πείρω(peiro = to pierce). Clever is also the meaning “the keys of the keyboard”, in greek pléktra(πλήκρα) from the verb pléto(πλήττω, “to hit, to beat”) also cognate with “plectrum” which, as we know. is used to “hit” the strings of the guitar. Surprisingly, the english word “to type” comes from the greek typto(τύπτω) which also means “to hit”, where also the word “typsis”(remorse) comes from. It's like a "stab of conscience" just with hits instead of stabs.

The word for beautiful(ὡραῖος, horéos) in Greek cognate with the word “time”(ὥρα>lat. hora>engl. hour), due to the fact that the beauty is related to time. Α fruit for example that is ripe, in greek hórimo(ὥριμο) which is also a cognate of time, is considered as beautiful when it’s ripe, not before and not when it’s bad. Likewise a woman is not beautiful when she is 10, neither when she is 70.

Comparison with Latin:
Latin has, as we know, a pretty similar etymological structure like Greek, but how similar in wisdom are those two language in reality?

The word for human in latin "homo" is related to "humus" which means "earth". In Greek however the word for human is "anthropos", which meaning the wise ancient philosopher Socrates gave us. In his dialogue with Kratylos he mentions, that the "anthropos" is the only Zóon(living being) which "observes something carefully that he has seen"(«αναθρεί ά όπωπε»), what indicates us the spiritual part of the human, who has not just a body but also a soul. The latin word for human however, shows us merely the material essence of man.

The word "statue"(<lat. statua) comes from "stare = to stand". In greek the statue is called "ágalma"(ἄγαλμα) = from the verb ἀγάλλομαι(agálome) = to rejoice(the feeling of joy you have when looking at a beautiful statue). Big difference right?

Here are some further examples:

Freedom(ἐλευθερία) = to go+ to love, thus to go wherever you like or “love”
Truth(ἀλήθεια) = privative affix -a+ to forget, thus “something that cannot be forgotten”(ergo something that lasts forever)
Friendship(Φιλία) = from the verb φιλῶ (filó)= to love friendly, platonically
Repentance(Μετάνοια) = meta(re) + mind, to change one’s mind, the way of life
Anxiety(Ἄγχος) = from the verb ἄγχω = to choke somebody
Nostalgy(Νοσταλγία) = the return(nostos) of the pain(algos)
Abyss(ἄβυσσος) = bottomless
Pedagogy(παιδαγωγία) = child+to lead(ἄγω τὸν παῖδα)
Family(οἰκογένεια) = House+to become
Philosophy(φιλοσοφία) = friend of wisdom
Fasting(Νηστεία) = Not eating
Help(βοήθεια) = scream+to run(to run to someone who’s screaming for help)
Star(ἀστήρ) = privative  affix a+ to stand(something that is constantly moving)
Ugly(ἄσχημος) = privative affix a+ shape ergo shapeless
Fun(διασκέδαση) = the dispersal (of the mind and soul)
Beautiful(εὔμορφος) = "good shape"