As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring a flea's foot and marveling at a midge's humming, he learned nothing about the affairs of ordinary life.

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.

Eagles don't catch flies.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.