"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

"The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy."

"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."