"Man is a wingless animal with two..." - Quote by Plato

“Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”

“I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.”

“Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.”

“Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.”

“There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.”

“What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.”

“The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?”

“To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.”

“Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?”