Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.

For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.