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It is in the world of things and places, times and troubles and turbid
processes, that mathematics is not so much applied as illustrated.

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

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,

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

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

Did you imagine that science was a disinterested pursuit of the truth? Well, you were wrong.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

"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.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

The advent of militant atheism marks a reaction - a lurid but natural reaction - to the violence of the Islamic world.