Take my story as a cautionary tale, a narrative argument against ready-made solutions. It tells you that applying formulas is not good enough – not, that is, when you’re faced with really hard problems!

The meaning is the ending.

Well, the Dean has asked me to speak on “The Role of Logic in Human Affairs”. Of course, if I take the injunction literally you shall hear the shortest lecture in recorded history!

Ah, the superior masochism of the privileged.

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.

Money corrupts so, best give it to the already corrupted.

The meaning of the world does not reside in the world.

The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important.

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and--in the unlikely event that he doesn't fall into it--he will become either a mystic or a madman...which is probably the same thing!

The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.