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“This was the method which I adopted: I first assumed some principle which I judged to be the strongest, and then I affirmed as true whatever seemed to agree with this, whether relating to the cause or to anything else; and that which disagreed I regarded as untrue. ...I want to show you the nature of that cause which has occupied my thoughts, and I shall have to go back to those familiar words which are in the mouth of everyone, and first of all assume that there is an absolute beauty and goodness and greatness, and the like; grant me this, and I hope to be able to show you the nature of the cause, and to prove the immortality of the soul.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism • Oscar Wilde“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.”
A Tale of Two Cities • Charles Dickens“A human being who strives for something great considers everyone he meets on his way either as a means or as a delay and obstacle--or as a temporary resting place.”
Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.”
The Karamazov Brothers • Fyodor Dostoevski