Carl Gustav Quotes

#1. The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

#2. Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

#3. Socrates should have written comics.

Mark Waid

#4. The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

Carl Gustav Hempel

#5. It's in our blood to start again.

Alexandra Bracken

#6. The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

#7. God ever arithmetizes.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

#8. I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

Jane Smiley

#9. No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

Carly Simon

#10. The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results.

Carl Gustav Hempel

#11. Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Democritus

#12. Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into the culture, the voodoo, and that wonderful synchretization of Christian and African belief and symbology, it's like nothing the world has ever seen.

Ben Fountain

#13. Winners Evaluate Themselves In A Positive Manner And Look For Their Strengths As They Work To Overcome Weaknesses.

Zig Ziglar

#14. The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.

Carl Gustav Carus

#15. There is a tendency in most of us to assume that we are just a little bit better than others. It we try to see ourselves as others see us, especially as God sees us, perhaps we would have a less exalted opinion of ourselves.

J. Maurus

#16. wasn't no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.

J.D. Jordan

#17. And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.

C. G. Jung

#19. A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#20. The poorest man in a religious community is not necessarily the one who has the fewest objects assigned to him for his use. Poverty is not merely a matter of not having "things." It is an attitude which leads us to renounce some of the advantages which come from the use of things.

Thomas Merton

#21. A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.

Carl Gustav Hempel

#22. Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

#23. I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

Howard Schultz

#24. The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus