Gods have bloody hands.
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.
The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.
He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.
There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.
The final philosophy is the ontology of God.
Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods
And as for death - we get what we expect.
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
What is needed is never to be had without price.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
The ultimate philosophical challenge is to reveal the ontology of God.
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like. . . Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.
My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.
We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.
Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.