As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
You don’t need to admire power, but you must always, however grudgingly, respect and understand it.
Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.
Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.
Part of understanding power is understanding the limits of power.
If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.
No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.
