The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.