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

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.

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

If you are not praying the type of prayers that scare you, your prayers are certainly not frightening our enemy.

The civil involvement of the church is a spiritual tactic aim at defeating the forces of darkness.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

The psychiatrists say that everybody should have a hobby. The hobby I recommend is advertising

In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.

I would like to have campaign spending limits...

I don't want to say anything about my kids...but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.