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

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

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

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.

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.

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