Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

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".