Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.

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

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.