"God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man."

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Source : "Philosophies of Mathematics" by Alexander George, Daniel J. Velleman, (p. 13), 2002.

Leopold Kronecker

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“We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.”
“Our effort was a serious effort, genuine effort, to open the door for peace, unfortunately, the Security Council is not ready to listen to that message.”
“Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty. If we say we can, weâ€™re lying. If we say No, we donâ€™t see it, That No will behead us And shut tight our window onto spirit. So let us rather not be sure of anything, Beside ourselves, and only that, so Miraculous beings come running to help. Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute, We shall be saying finally, With tremendous eloquence, Lead us. When we have totally surrendered to that beauty, We shall be a mighty kindness.”
“Katsa didn't think a person should thank her for not causing pain. Causing joy was worthy of thanks, and causing pain worthy of disgust. Causing neither was neither, it was nothing, and nothing didn't warrant thanks.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To be alive at all is to have scars.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.101, Penguin
“The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart”

Source : Viktor Schauberger “Living Energies”, Рипол Классик
“I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.”
“In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.”

Source : Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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