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.

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.

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.

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.

going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way

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.