A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
And where the deepest current crawls Like thistledown the dainty fly falls. Then from the depths a silver gleam Quick flashes, like a jewel bright. Up through the waters of the stream An instant visible to sight As lightning cleaves to sombre sky A rainbow rises to the fly.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.
You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.
We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.
The interesting thing is that the 82% of the Greeks do not want to abandon the Euro. They really believe that there might be some kind of magical way where we could stay in the Eurozone but do not do our homework. This is not possible. So what we are trying to do is explain, you know, we in Greece invented democracy but we also invented at the same time populism.
The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.