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.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.

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

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

the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

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