QUOTES

Some ideas that have affected me in some way during the last year, either making me think, laugh or both. I don't necessarily agree with all of them. But I prefer an argument clearly and honestly made to false pieties of all kinds.


MATHEMATICS

When it comes to Mathematics there are only three kinds of people, those who can count and those who can't. (Thomas Cathcart)

GREAT INSULTS

"A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg that looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity" (Mark Twain.)

ON THE LEBANESE

The Lebanese commit suicide by jumping from their ego towards their IQ.
(Anonymous)

ON THE ABYSS

- If you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss will stare back into you.
(Nietzsche)

- All meaning comes from the edge of death, whether in the attempt to negate, accept or embrace it, without the threat of the void giving meaning to life is impossible.
(Lupo il Pellegrino)

- Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy afternoon.
(Susan Ertz)


MYSTICISM

- World without end...
(The Magnificat)

- Let us realise our limitation. We are something and we are not everything...the smalness of our being hides infinity from our sight.
(Blaise Pascal)

- The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.
(Blaise Pascal)


ON THE EROS OF THE INFINITE

- He watched her for a very long time and she knew that he was watching her and he knew that she knew that he was watching her, and she knew that he knew that she knew; in a kind of regression of images that you get when two mirrors face each other and the images go on and on in some kind of infinity.
(Robert Pirsig)


OF BEAUTY AND MATHEMATICS

- This result is too beautiful to be false; it is more important to have beauty in one's equations then to have them fit experiment.
(Paul Dirac)


OF WONDER

- The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. (Einstein)

(...) whereof one cannot speak, one must remain silent.(Wittgenstein)


OF LEGITIMATE DOUBT

"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?"
(Epicurus)


OF IRREVERENCE

- When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized the Lord does'nt work that way. So I stole one and asked him to forgive me. (Emo Philips)

- Creator: A comedian whose audience is affraid to laugh. (H. L. Mencken)

- Forgive, O Lord my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. (Robert Frost)

- Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the creator of human intelligence. (Anonymous)

- Sire, je n'ai pas besoin de cette hypothèse!
(de Laplace)

- Ôte-toi de mon soleil. (Diogène)