Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Man is what he eats.
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.