Unless philosophers rule as kings, or kings genuinely philosophize, there will be no end to troubles for states.

I know that I do not know.

There is no envy in the good.

Imagine prisoners chained underground since childhood, seeing only shadows on a wall and taking them for reality.

Is the motive good? Is there no selfish intent?

-- Kazuo Inamori

My compositions are the product of my understanding and my pain; those born of pain alone seem to please the world most.

-- Franz Schubert

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

-- Igor Stravinsky