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The wise are doubtful,' Socrates returned, 'and I should not be singular if I too doubted.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly
that and only that, is tragedy.

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

Sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

Convention, so often a mask for injustice ...

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

He was there beside her; yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.

Saint Paul said the invisible must be understood by the visible. That was not a Hebrew idea, it was Greek.

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

Euripides questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more value than the sparrows.

The modern mind is never popular in its own day. People hate being made to think.

It is the men of this land who are bloodthirsty and they lay their own guilt on the gods.

[W]hat is ugly and evil is apt to change and grow milder with time.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek.

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

An ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit ...

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

She was brave from excess of grief

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

Kiss me yet once again, the last, long kiss, Until I draw your soul within my lips And drink down all your love.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

I take courage," Aeneas said. "Here too there are tears for things, and hearts are touched by the fate of all that is mortal.

The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them.

..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.