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

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

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.

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

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

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

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