...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Laws are not made for the good.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.