Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.

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

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.