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“This is a fine saying of Plato: That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them... a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.”
What is art? • Leo Tolstoy“And this, Cebes, is the reason why the true lovers of knowledge are temperate and brave; and not for the reason that the world gives. For not in that way does the soul of a philosopher reason. ...Never fear, Simmias and Cebes, that a soul which has been thus nurtured and has had these pursuits, will at her departure from the body be scattered and blown away by the winds and be nowhere and nothing.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values”
Meditations on Quixote • Jose Ortega y Gasset““If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.””
Seagull • Anton Chekhov