Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
