The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method–more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records–of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason. Nicholas Murray Butler
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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Elie Wiesel
Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We...
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Haruki Murakami
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
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Mahatma Gandhi
He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
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Milan Kundera
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
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Amit Ray
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method–more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records–of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses...
A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
