The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Vows begin when hope dies.

Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else.

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.