To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity