Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

Plato was a bore.