The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Error itself may be happy chance.

There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

Seek simplicity, then distrust.