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

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

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

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To...

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

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

A people’s literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.

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

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

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

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

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

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

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

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

To the Greeks, the word “character” first referred to the stamp upon a coin. By extension, man was the coin, and the character trait was the stamp imprinted upon him. To them, that trait, for...

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

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

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

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

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...

She was brave from excess of grief

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

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...

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

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

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

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

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

They yoked themselves to a car and drew her all the long way through dust and heat. Everyone admired their filial piety when they arrived and the proud and happy mother standing before the statue...

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...

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