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The wise are doubtful,' Socrates returned, 'and I should not be singular if I too doubted.
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Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.
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A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.
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It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.
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The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.
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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.
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Love cannot live where there is no trust.
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Convention, so often a mask for injustice ...
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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.
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He was there beside her; yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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Saint Paul said the invisible must be understood by the visible. That was not a Hebrew idea, it was Greek.
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The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
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It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more value than the sparrows.
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It is the men of this land who are bloodthirsty and they lay their own guilt on the gods.
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[W]hat is ugly and evil is apt to change and grow milder with time.
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Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
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There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.
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The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.
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There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.
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When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
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For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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An ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.
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When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.
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To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit ...
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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.
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A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.
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She was brave from excess of grief
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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
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A man without fear cannot be a slave.
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Kiss me yet once again, the last, long kiss, Until I draw your soul within my lips And drink down all your love.
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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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.
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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.
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Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.
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Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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I take courage," Aeneas said. "Here too there are tears for things, and hearts are touched by the fate of all that is mortal.
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Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.
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The mind knows only what lies near the heart.
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Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.
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Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.
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