Quotes Tagged With :friedrich

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous....

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very....

Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness....

Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and....

Mr. Bhaer saw the drops on her cheeks, ... The sight seemed to touch him very much, for suddenly stooping....

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses....

Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored....

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of....