The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.

In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.