I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.