Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

A human being is a naturally political [animal].

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

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

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.