He [Aeschylus] was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great adversary suffices and who can dispense with success. Life for him was an adventure, perilous indeed, but men are not made for safe havens. The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

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 u…

Even of old the Christian world, so bitterly antagonistic to any ideas not specifically contained in their creeds and dogmas, made an exception in Socrates' ca…

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…

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and fee…

Taking shelter in the dead is death itself, and only taking all the risk of life to the fullest extent is living.