The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. Counsels and Maxims

A man should be upright, not kept upright. Book III

I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it. The Blind Owl

[One of the company... said: ...is not this the direct contrary of what we admitted before—that out of the greater came the less and out of the less the greater, and that opposites are simply generated from opposites; whereas now this seems to be utterly denied.] ...then we were speaking of opposites in the concrete, and now of the essential opposite which, as is affirmed, neither in us nor in nature can ever be at variance with itself... these essetial opposites will never, as we maintain, admit of generation into or out of one another. The Trials Of Socrates