"Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!"

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Jean Dieudonne

#People Quotes #Linear Quotes #Geometry Quotes

“Even nowadays some people see me as a "vreemde eend in de bijt" [translated literally as the strange duck in the pond. In other words, an outsider].”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.”
“How YOU see yourself - not anyone else - is the thing that defines you.”
“Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.”

Source : Song: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, 2007
“I wouldn't like me, if I had to be around me.”
“You are cold, while you yourself fan flames.”

Source : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.21, Cosimo Classics
“It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.”

Source : Lionel Trilling (1939). “Matthew Arnold”

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