"Even in reaching for the beautiful there..." - Quote by Plato

“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.”

“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.”

“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.”

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.”

“Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.”

“I saw the sunset forty-four times!”

“Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.”

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”

“Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?”