It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

The motive of success is not enough.

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.