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

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

We are what we think we are

As for me, all I know is I know nothing.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.