Mathematicians aren’t satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
I’m not afraid of death, but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine, but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary, he is almost devoid of imagination.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
Our mind is all we’ve got. Not that it won’t lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.
