“The road up and the road down is one and the same.”

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

A fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a fool but. A Genius can become a fool when he understands he is a Genius.

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

For a while you get mad, then you get over it.