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“nothing has been more damaging to philosophy than mathematics, and in particular the imitation of its method in contexts where it cannot possibly be employed.”
― Immanuel Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755–1770

“It is a bad mark against a society that those who lead it need so much Science; if men were what they ought to be, they would scarcely need to study in order to learn the things they have to do.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Discourses & Other Early Political Writings

“3.1432 Not: "The complex sign 'aRb' says that a stands in the relation R to b", but: "That 'a' stands in a certain relation to 'b' says that aRb”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus