A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.