"Logic ignores the almost, just as the..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.”

“Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.”

“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”

“In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.”

“If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?”

“But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.”

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

“He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.”

“Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.”