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

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

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

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.