Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.