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.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.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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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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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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