Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.
Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
God forever geometrizes.
Love is a severe mental disorder.
. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .