There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.