When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.
SocratesTrue knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
SocratesPhilebus 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
Socrates