The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.