"You should not honor men more than..." - Quote by Plato

“Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.”

“Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.”

“A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”

“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.”

“It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.”

“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”

“To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?”

“Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.”

“Selfishness is blind.”