Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the job requires another 90% of the time. The first condition of immortality is death.

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?' 'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.

Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the extent of the negation of man's corporeal self that mathematics achieves cannot be compared with anything. Whoever is interested in this subject I refer to my articles. Here I will say only that the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be discovered, never invented.

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.