The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.