Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

With love, give up better for the best and without a rest.

I like different shoes with different themes for different reasons.

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

I think [social media] is fundamentally restructuring the whole nature of information and how it's expressed in America.

I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up.

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.

If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.

What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?

I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.