"Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature."

-- Hermann Weyl

#Math Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Essence Quotes

“Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.”

Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Not only do you have to trust the definite, you must also trust the uncertainty.”
“I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.”
“The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.”
“The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy - but what is curious is that Paul VI did that to get as close as possible to the Protestant Lord's supper... there was with Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or at least to correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic, in the traditional sense, and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.”
“Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.”

Source : Scott Joplin, Maurice Hinson (1990). “Scott Joplin at the Piano”, p.5, Alfred Music Publishing
“[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.”
“It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.”

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