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.

As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

Kierkegaard also said that truth is `subjective`. By this he did not mean it doesn't matter what we think or believe. He meant that the really important truths are personal. Only these truths are `true for me`.

The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about.

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

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.