"...although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything...,
I am better off than he is - for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows"
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"Everything is made of the infinite boundless."
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"Everything is made of air."
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"But whoever is perplexed and wonders thinks himself ignorant."
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"Begin the morning by saying to thyself,
I shall meet with the busybody, the
ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious,
unsocial. All these things happen to
them by reason of their ignorance of
what is good and evil."
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"Everything is atoms and empty space"
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"The main basic principle
of the skeptic system is
that of opposing to every
proposition an equal
proposition..."
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"If we only realize what is
and what is not our own,
we can live peacefully,
free of pain."
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"the principal disturbance in the minds
of men arises because they think that
these celestial bodies are blessed and immortal"
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"...the logos is common to all."
"Everything is made of Fire."
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"It is and must be."
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"Like ourselves ... [the cave prisoners] see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another..."
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"Man is the measure of all things."
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"Everything is made of numbers."
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"Everything is made of water."
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"All is one; motion is illusory."
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