“Where are we really going? Always home.”
“Philosophy is really homesickness—the urge to be at home everywhere.”
“The sciences do not try to explain; they hardly even try to interpret; they mainly make models.”
“All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.”
“Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.”
“Young man, in mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.”
“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
“There’s no sense in being precise when you don’t even know what you’re talking about.”
“Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt.”
“Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.”
“Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.”
“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.”
“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”
“Love! Love until the night collapses.”
“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.”
“Someday, somewhere—anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”
“You are like nobody since I love you.”
“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.”
“In one kiss, you know all I have not said.”