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

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I know that I do not know.

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

All is number.

-- Pythagoras

You will not find thinking apart from Being, in which it is expressed.

-- Parmenides

Evil, too, has its place within the scheme of the Good.

-- Plotinus

Philosophy is the knowledge of beings qua beings.

-- Farabi

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

-- Claude Monet

All determination is negation.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza