"Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it provides spiritual values. It puts man in touch with the highest aspirations and lofiest goals. It offers intellectual delight and the exultation of resolving the mysteries of the universe."

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Source : Morris Kline (2013). “Mathematics for the Nonmathematician”, p.551, Courier Corporation

Morris Kline

#Spiritual Quotes #Art Quotes #Men Quotes

“Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.”
“People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.”

Source : "A model who eats? She wrote the book". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2004.
“Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?"”
“Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.”
“I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine.”
“I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.”
“If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.”
“Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.”

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