Philosophy is the highest music..

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn..

[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy ….

Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making grac….

Ideas are the source of all things.

Your dog is your only philosopher..

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth..

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers..

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful..

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they dese….

The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use..

The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice..

Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after ….

Those having torches will pass them on to others..

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers..

As the government is, such will be the man..

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the s….

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other..

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction..

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight..

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love..