“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”

“What would geometry be without Gauss, mathematical logic without Boole, algebra without Hamilton, analysis without Cauchy?”

“Logic is figure without a ground. (p. 241)”

“I feel more helpless with you than without you.”

“What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?”

“Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.”

“Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force”

“But it is logically impossible that there could exist an 'unowned' dent, a dent without a surface that is dented.”

“Ed walked away from the program feeling fortified and stapled. His brain was buzzing, the way it always did just after Jeopardy! He loaded up the microbus with Atlases and poseidons and headed for Pope County. "I've had it," he sang. "I've had it with puns, alliteration, Russian literature, Italian neorealism, meaningless cross-references, and laundry lists of nonsense. I shall drive without a license, without clothing, without direction, and if I make it to Arkansas, fine, and if I'm running late, if I'm running a numbers game, it doesn't matter, I shall keep on running. Yes, this is the answer. This is the ending. I shall keep on running, because a body in motion tends to stay emotional, and it's better to feel. Pain is better than emptiness, emptiness is better than nothing, and nothing is better than this."”

“An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.”