I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.