"Philosophy is the highest music."
"Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear."
"I don't think we shall quarrel about a word the subject of our inquiry is too important for that."
"Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils β no, nor the human race, as I believe β and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day."
"Everyone thinks because it is solely responsible for the wisdom or folly of his life, that is to say of his destiny."
"The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge."
"He whom love touches not walks in darkness."
"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."
"You donβt seem to love money too much. And those who havenβt made their own money are usually like you. But those who have made it for themselves are twice as fond of it as those who havenβt."
"Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls."
