A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.