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

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

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

Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.

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 the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

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

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