'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

No one ever dies an atheist.

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

Science is nothing but perception.