“Plato … says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution.”

“The warfare between poetry and philosophy certainly started with Plato, who was both poet and philosopher.”

“The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.”

“Is it just I who cannot found a school, or can a philosopher never do so?”

“Plato began his philosophic career as the result of a conversion. This is surely an existential beginning.”

“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”

“Any sage can do philosophy, but not every philosopher is a sage.”

“A mindset of abundance can only be guided and influenced, never forced.”

“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”

“Missionaries, whether of philosophy or of religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions of the multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.”