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

“The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.”

Source : "Truthmaking". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 7, 2012.

“Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”

“Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to his fellow men (or 'to society') to represent the results of his study as simply, clearly and modestly as he can. The worst thing that intellectuals can do - the cardinal sin - is to try to set themselves up as great prophets vis-à-vis their fellow men and to impress them with puzzling philosophies. Anyone who cannot speak simply and clearly should say nothing and continue to work until he can do so.”

Source : "In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years".

“History is just new people making old mistakes.”

“I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.”

“Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.”

“To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.”

Source : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, 2002.