I want to understand more about the world while Im still here.

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

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the city-states could vary widely. This led the Sophists to raise the question of what was natural and what was socially induced. By doing this, they paved the way for social criticism in the city-state of Athens.

The universe is a great mystery.

But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true.