Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

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

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

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

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.