Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.