“The power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good.” Republic

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant. Beware of Pity

Private property ... has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, / A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness — / Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!” Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam