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All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set to thought.
The Greek Way (1930)
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
The Greek Way (1930)
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth, and that which enables him to die for the truth.
The Greek Way (1930)
All things are at odds when God lets a thinker loose on this planet.
The Greek Way (1930)
To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit, which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.
The Greek Way (1930)
Great literature, past or present, is the expression of great knowledge of the human heart; great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within...
The Greek Way (1930)
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.
The Greek Way (1930)
They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.
The Greek Way (1930)
[Happiness is] The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope.
The Greek Way (1930)