One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.

In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.