But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless.

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.