I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece’s great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don’t really act as if we believed in the soul’s immortality and that’s why we are where we are today.
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.
Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.
Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.
Euripides “questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.
Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.
None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.
The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.
It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are…
We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.
Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.
Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.
A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.
When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.
It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.