The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

If we are going t stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

I know not whence I came, nor whither I go, nor who I am.

For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.