I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and...
They yoked themselves to a car and drew her all the long way through dust and heat. Everyone admired their filial piety when they arrived and the proud and happy mother standing before the statue pray...
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.
When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.
An ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.
She was brave from excess of grief
Moderately wise each one should be,Not overwise, for a wise man's heartIs seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.
He was there beside her; yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.
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.
It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are...
The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.
It is the men of this land who are bloodthirsty and they lay their own guilt on the gods.
Love cannot live where there is no trust.
A chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and h...
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
To the Greeks, the word character first referred to the stamp upon a coin. By extension, man was the coin, and the character trait was the stamp imprinted upon him. To them, that trait, for example br...
Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept a...