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

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.

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.

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

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

You cannot write if you are not on fire

The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption.

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.

A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.