The Will Is Never Free - It

A Friend Of Mine Tells Me That A Beethoven Symphony Can Solve For Him A Problem Of Conduct. I've No Doubt That It Does So Simply By Giving Him A Sense Of The Tragedy And The Greatness Of Human Destiny, Which Makes His Personal Anxieties Seem Small, Which Throws Them Into A New Proportion.

God Is A Character, A Real And Consistent Being, Or He Is Nothing. If God Did A Miracle He Would Deny His Own Nature And The Universe Would Simply Blow Up, Vanish, Become Nothing.

The Principal Fact Of Life Is The Free Mind.

It Is The Tragedy Of The World That No One Knows What He Doesn't Know - And The Less A Man Knows, The More Sure He Is That He Knows Everything.

Throughout The Play Everything Possible Was Done To Show The Virtue, Innocence And Helplessness Of The Poor, And The Abandoned Cruelty, The Heartless Self-indulgence Of The Rich.