The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
Tell them to send everything that can fly.
When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.