Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

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

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.