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

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.

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.

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as living. One day we suddenly take the fact that we exist for granted - and then, yes, then we don’t think about it anymore until we are about to leave the world again.