Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.

Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.

How well you run determines whether or not you will win or lose.

If one person has an imaginary friend they're crazy, if many people have the same imaginary friend its religion

Don't think it. Do it!

The next morning I was up bright and early. Mostly because I'd sold the curtains.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent but he who is without a dream.

The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.

Amazons Jeff Bezos, Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.