The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.

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

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

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.

Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

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

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.