"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."

Family, Fathers, Will, World

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"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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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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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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"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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"The fullness of life is in the hazards of life."

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"Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active."

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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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"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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