In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.