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

Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.

Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.

At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.