What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

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.

The spirit of a man is divine.

Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.

We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'

When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.

Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

Where the heart is the mind works best.

Barca is more than a club and a great team and I want to contribute to Messi staying the best for many years.