“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”

“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

“Well, you know what happens to lovers: whenever they see a lyre, a garment or anything else that their beloved is accustomed to use, they know the lyre, and the image of the boy to whom it belongs comes into their mind.”

“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”

“Time is the moving image of reality”

“what if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God, himself immortal;...would that be a life to disregard?”