"Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him that he had not observed: he muttered: 'Il faut que j'y songe encore', and put the paper in his pocket.' [I must think about it again]"

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Source : "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan (p. 178), 1872.

Augustus De Morgan

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.”
“When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.”
“I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.”
“Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.”

Source : Source: www.spin.com
“There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.”
“When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living -- to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to question and think critically -- they can be easily manipulated by fear and propaganda. A democracy is only as wise as its citizens, and a democracy of ignorant citizens can be as dangerous as a dictatorship.”

Source : Dr Paul Chappell, Dr, Paul K. Chappell (2013). “Peaceful Revolution: How We can Create the Future Needed for Humanity's Survival”, p.38, Easton Studio Press LLC
“The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.”

Source : Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.113, Simon and Schuster
“Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.”

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