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

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.

Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

We are the living planet!

The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.