I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.