Archibald MacLeish Quotes

“Around, around the sun we go:The moon goes round the earth.We do not die of death:We die of vertigo.”

“Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.”

“What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.”

“There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.”

“Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.”

“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.”

“The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.”

“The mind has the Propensity to Excel along the Path of least resistance thereby ostracising other equally important "concepts" It is this lack of restrictions of the mind that separates our intellectually aptitude”

“We have no choice but to be guilty God is unthinkable if we are innocent.”

“Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.”