The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to the love of the calling in its adult life.

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.

To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's the tragedy. ... Can anyone truthfully say, I don't matter and I don't mind?

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

All you need to find a strong, loving man is the knowledge and understanding of the power you have as a woman.

Life is a sacred bliss.

No matter what level of your ability you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.

Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.

The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.

Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.