Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

The universe really is motion & nothing else.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

How many things I can do without!

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

I only know that I know nothing

I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.