“ 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." [Saturday Evening Post, September 27, 1958] ”
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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 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." [Saturday Evening Post, September 27, 1958] ”
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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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“ 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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“ 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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“ 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 for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. ”
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“ Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. ”
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“ 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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“ The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought… ”
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“ The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought… ”
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“ The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought… ”
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“ Civilization…is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the things of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed. ”
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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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“ When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith. ”
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“ To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is being educated. ”
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“ When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. ”
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“ When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith. ”
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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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“ 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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“ Civilization…is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the things of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed. ”
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“ When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. ”
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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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“ To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is being educated. ”
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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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“ 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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