Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.

With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.