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

But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.

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

I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

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.

For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him