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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom. (Edith Hamilton)
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them. View quote
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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well. View quote
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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 ages. View quote
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It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work. View quote
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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. View quote
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though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience. View quote
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men. View quote
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When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith. View quote
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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 should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant. View quote
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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. (Edith Hamilton)
Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice. View quote
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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 apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe) View quote
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Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two. View quote
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Convention, so often a mask for injustice. View quote
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He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life. View quote
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. View quote
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Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche) View quote
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy. View quote
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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. View quote
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When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to. (Edith Hamilton)
Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three. View quote
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The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind. View quote
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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique. View quote
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No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful. View quote
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