Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.

Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.

History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.