To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex

The truth is not so good a story.

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.

A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.