... 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.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

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

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.

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

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.