Farkas Bolyai famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.
-- Farkas Bolyai

#Spring #Light #Violet
Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son JÃ¡nos from any further attempt.
-- Farkas Bolyai

#Life #Son #Trying
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...
-- Farkas Bolyai

#Stars #Science #Views
Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there.
-- Farkas Bolyai

#Science #Night #Light
Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.
-- Farkas Bolyai

#Math #Leisure #Problem

Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.
No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.
Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?
Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

Farkas Bolyai famous quotes

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