It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.