Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.
You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.
If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.
It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.