Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time.

The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.