I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife

I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.

All generalisations - perhaps except this one - are false.

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.

...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.

But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

Nothing new had been done in Logic since Aristotle!

When you have mastered fear then you have mastered all.

Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity

Leave him with his God. I’m sure He’s as hard and unforgiving as Cain is. I don’t want to know about Cain’s God. If he is anything to be guided by, I’d rather be an atheist, thank you.

Politics is compromise.

He who tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted.

Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the peasant.

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

My love is as a fever, longing still.