Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
All our knowledge is symbolic.
I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.