The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.