The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence |
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. |
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. |
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt |
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry |
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. |
The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. |
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. |
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. |
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. |
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things |
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. |
There are no better friends than those forged through honest and often heated argument. |
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead. |
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. |