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

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

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

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

... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.

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