Everybody is by their nature always acting in their own best interest; and it’s only the erratic fluctuations of their human minds and the misleading beliefs they acquire in the course of their lives that lead them to their failures and unvirtuous actions. Thus, no person has any reason to feel shame, guilt, or reproach for anything he ever did, because at the time he always had a perfectly valid and justifiable reason for doing it.

— Roman Gelperin, The Master Mind of the Self-Actualizing Person

The Cantor set is indeed very special. It has an uncountable number of points – the total length of which is zero! – that can be found on a set of line segments!

— Haim Shapira, Eight Lessons on Infinity

It is no criterion of goodness in a puzzle that its outcome be intrinsically interesting or important.

— Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Only in pure logic and mathematics can statements be deemed absolutely certain, but for this kind of truth a stupendous price is paid. The price is that such statements say nothing about the world.

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

…books about ethics are twice as likely to go missing from university libraries than other books – indicating that in some ways moral philosophy students may actually behave worse than other students!

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now