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Poetry and preaching do not g...

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

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The mind knows only what lies...

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

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It has always seemed strange ...

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 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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In every civilization, life g...

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 at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.

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Responsibility is the price e...

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

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It is not hard work that is d...

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

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Love, however, cannot be forb...

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)

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Tell one your thoughts, but b...

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

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It was a Roman who said it wa...

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.

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A word is no light matter. Wo...

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

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So far, we do not seem appall...

So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.

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The greater the suffering dep...

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

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Uncertainty is the prerequisi...

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

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To be able to be caught up in...

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

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A people's literature is the ...

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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None but a poet can write a t...

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

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When the freedom they wished ...

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...

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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The modern minds in each gene...

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

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Great art is the expression o...

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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