“for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life.”

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.”

“Philosophy is the highest music.”

“Philosophy begins in wonder." -Plato”

“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.”

“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”

“[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.”