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 reconstruction can.
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The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greeks said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.Edith Hamilton
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
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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.
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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 edcuated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is to be educated.
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There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
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