A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.