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

There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)

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

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

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

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.