Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

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

And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. The reason for this lies in the failure properly to define liberty. For there are two marks by which democracy is thought to be defined: "sovereignty of the majority" and "liberty." "Just" is equated with what is equal, and the decision of the majority as to what is equal is regarded as sovereign; and liberty is seen in terms of doing what one wants.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.