"Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which would not be God himself?), supplied God with patterns for the creation of the world, and passed over to Man along with the image of God; and was not in fact taken in through the eyes."

-- Johannes Kepler

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“... in the midst of death life persists ...”
“Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?”
“Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.”
“Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.14, Everyman's Library
“Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.”

Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited
“One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.”
“It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.”
“The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be maintained at all, it is obvious that they must be applied equally to every case which satisfies their terms.”

Source : Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.215

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