The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.

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

But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.

There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.

If we don't know where we are going, it can be helpful to know where we come from.