"...to discover the maker and father of this universe is a task indeed, and having discovered him, to declare him to all men is an imposible thing."

"...of the gods we know nothing, neither of them not their names, whatever they may be, by which they call themselves."

"...that which every soul seeks and for its sake does all that it does with an intuition of its reality, but yet baffled and unable to understand its nature adequately, or to attain to any lasting belief about it as it can about other things."

"Just as the sun in the visible world illuminates objects so that the eye can see them, so too the idea of the good enables the intellect to grasp conceptual objects. However, just as the visible object and the eye are not themselves the sun, so the agathon remains apart from both the conceptual object and the cognitive faculty; they are akin to the idea of the good, but are not identifiable with the good in itself."

"He is neither mind nor intelligence nor knowledge, but enables the mind to think, and is the cause of the existence of intelligence and of the possibility of knowledge, and causes the existence of all conceptual things and of truth itself and of being itself, since he transcends all things and is conceptual by a certain indescribable power."

"If you shut your eyes to the world of sense and look up with the mind, if you turn away from the flesh and raise the eyes of the soul, only so will you see God"

"Today is theirs, but the future is mine"

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."

"Nothing true is popular, nothing popular is true."

"It's better to be hated and right than to be loved and wrong."

"It's better to travel alone than with the fool for company."

"If you can't debate it with ease, then you really are either wrong or you don't know anything about the topic."

"If evil people love it, it must be Evil. If evil people despise it, then it must be Good."

"An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity. A physicist tries to make it simple. An idiot, anything the more complicated is, the more he will admire it. If you make something so cluster fuck he can't understand it, he's going to think you're a god because you made it so complicated, nobody can understand it. That's how they write journals and academic journals, they try to make it so complicated people think you're a genius"

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."