Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato’s superior style.
Christianity is Platonism for the people.
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.
Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.
The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.
Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live.
Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer.
I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.
In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.
Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?
To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.
This verse gets me through each day, what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd!
In the end one only experiences oneself.
I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.
When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
One does not know – cannot know – the best that is in one.