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| How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? | | Uncategorized | |
| Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge | | Uncategorized | |
| I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. | | Uncategorized | |
| I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I don't THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have good hope that there is something after death. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning | | Uncategorized | |
| I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with | | Uncategorized | |
| I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life | | Doctrine; Duty; Truth | |
| I wonder if we could contrive some magnificent myth that would in itself carry conviction to our whole community | | Uncategorized | |
| If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life | | Uncategorized | |
| If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake. | | Uncategorized | |
| If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals | | Uncategorized | |
| If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed. | | Uncategorized | |
| Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. | | Cleverness; Evil; Ignorance; Intelligence; Misfortune | |
| In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, ''How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it?'' to which he replied, ''Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master.'' I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions. | | Uncategorized | |
| In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one. | | Uncategorized | |
| In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes. | | Uncategorized | |
| Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not? | | Uncategorized | |
| It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine | | Uncategorized | |
| It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. | | Uncategorized | |
