"Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”

“It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.”

“All our knowledge is symbolic.”

“There are no creeds in mathematics.”

“To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.”

“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”

“You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.”

“When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.”

“Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.”