"It seems to me that whatever else..." - Quote by Plato

“If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.”

“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”

“All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance”

“Who is Silvia What is she, That all our swains commend her Holy, fair, and wise is she.”

“Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.”

“Genius lasts longer than beauty”

“Truth happens to an idea”

“The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.”

“All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish”