"The most beautiful motion is that which..." - Quote by Plato

“Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.”

“Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.”

“We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.”

“A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner.”

“Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.”

“Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.”

“The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!”

“The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!”