Mortimer J. Adler Quotes

The Essence Of Tragedy Is Time, Or Rather The Lack Of It. There Is No Problem In Any Greek Tragedy That Could Not Have Been Solved If There Had Been Enough Time, But There Is Never Enough. Decisions, Choices Have To Be Made In A Moment, There Is No Time To Think And Weigh The Consequences; And, Since Even Tragic Heroes Are Fallible - Especially Fallible, Perhaps - The Decisions Are Wrong. It Is Easy For Us To See What Should Have Been Done, But Would We Have Been Able To See In Time? That Is The Question That You Should Always Ask In Reading Any Greek Tragedy.

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