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

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

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.

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

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