The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.

We do not know. We can only guess.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.