Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.