Quote #10

'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set to thought.'

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  2. 'All things are at odds when God lets a thinker loose on this planet.'
  3. The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginning…
  4. None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
  5. They [the Greeks] were the first Westerners; the spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery and the place of the Greeks is…
  6. 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 histor…
  7. Great literature, past or present, is the expression of great knowledge of the human heart; great art is the expression of a solution of th…
  8. Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

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