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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
Love cannot live where there is no trust.
Convention, so often a mask for injustice.
The mind knows only what lies near the heart.
A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.
There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.
The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.
All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.
The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.
Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.
He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.
A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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.
No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.
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.