It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.