"The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with line as a thing. It becomes a servant of his pleasure."

-- Rene Huyghe

#Reality Quotes #Use Quotes #Lines Quotes

“Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.”

Source : "The Development of Mathematics" by Eric Temple Bell, (p. 9), 1940.
“Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.”
“To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both good and bad according to time, place, and circumstance, and a complete answer to the question, In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is it bad? would involve not merely a universal history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer.”

Source : "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". Book by James Fitzjames Stephen, Ch.2, 1873-1874.
“I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland”
“A friend is a second self.”
“Life is but a dream for the dead.”
“He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”
“I like to go to Mauritius on holiday.”

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