Optimists Think That This Is The Best

The Theory Of Our Modern Technic Shows That Nothing Is As Practical As Theory.

Everyone Wants Rather To Be Pleasing To Women And That Desire Is Not Altogether, Though It Is Very Largely, A Manifestation Of Vanity. But One Cannot Aim To Be Pleasing To Women Any More Than One Can Aim To Have Taste, Or Beauty Of Expression, Or Happiness; For These Things Are Not Specific Aims Which One May Learn To Attain; They Are Descriptions Of The Adequacy Of One's Living. To Try To Be Happy Is To Try To Build A Machine With No Other Specification Than That It Shall Run Noiselessly.

To The Confusion Of Our Enemies.

It Is Perfectly Obvious That The Whole World Is Going To Hell. The Only Possible Chance That It Might Not Is That We Do Not Attempt To Prevent It From Doing So.

Today, It Is Not Only That Our Kings Do Not Know Mathematics, But Our Philosophers Do Not Know Mathematics And - To Go A Step Further - Our Mathematicians Do Not Know Mathematics.