"His appearance gives no clue to what his profession might be, and yet he doesn't look like a man without a profession…"

"If someone were to discover, for instance, that under hitherto unobserved circumstances stones were able to speak, it…"

"If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility. To pass freely through open doors, it is n…"

"With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusivel…"

"[T]he restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress..."

"Questions and answers click into each other like cogs of a machine. Each person has nothing but quite definite tasks.…"

"In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson … of t…"

"There is nothing more deplorable than those skeptics and reformers, liberal priests and humanistically-oriented schol…"

"Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today."

"For what do we do on the Last Day, when the works of humankind are weighted, with three treatises on formic acid, or …"