For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.