To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz anderes. Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchmen. Whenever you say anything or talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and right away it is something completely different.