“I don’t think it’s about finding happiness, but rather, finding redemption — finding the ability to redeem yourself, to give yourself
back to yourself. And that’s not something you find once and then you’re done; you don’t reach some magical point one day where the whole puzzle falls into place. Every day is the process of [...]
“It’s when people leave their “place” in the social heirarchy that the trouble starts. It’s when they start getting uppity and rebellious that they invoke the wrath of the complacent and of the powerful.”
“I may not always be right, but I care passionately about what is true and I never say anything that I do not believe to be right.”
“In short, I deduce that all, not only great men, but even those who are even a tiny bit off the beaten track - that is, who are a tiny bit capable of saying something new - by their very nature cannot fail to be criminals - more or less, to be sure.”
“But perhaps someone will say ‘Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death-penalty?’ I might fairly reply to him ‘You are mistaken my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the [...]
“Words had disappeared, and with them the meaning of things, the methods of using them, the feeble landmarks which men had traced on their surface.”
“When you want to understand something, you stand in front of it all by yourself, without any help; all the past history of your world is of no use to you. And then it disappears and what you have understood
disappears with it.”