Love, However, Cannot Be Forbidden. The More

The Temper Of Mind That Sees Tragedy In Life Has Not For Its Opposite The Temper That Sees Joy. The Opposite Pole To The Tragic View Of Life Is The Sordid View.

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.

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.

The Heterodoxy Of One Generation Is The Orthodoxy Of The Next.

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.