The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greeks said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

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

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