The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.