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

"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."

"No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."