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..

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated p….

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look ….

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed..

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit..

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work..

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

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them..

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

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 a….

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught..

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Whe….

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat..

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well..

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical recon….

Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever shou….

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..

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience..

Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over.….

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom..

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next..