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

The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

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