Proclus Quotes

#1. There," I say.
"No," says Elizabeth, following my gaze. "That is not where you're headed. I think the race is dangerous enough without that, don't you? This way.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. Everything is overflowing with Gods.

Proclus

#3. The light of the Sun is the pure energy of intellect.

Proclus

#4. That wasn't because of money, it was because I had a job for the next two days and wanted to work. So I faked a test. That was over two years ago. Why has there been no issue about it since then?

Marc Wallice

#5. Elmo found, as have many, that the death of the heart corrupted the pen into writing a farrago of horrors and insanities, not necessarily the less true for their seeming extravagance, but inaccessible for the most part to the prudent.

Robert Aickman

#6. He was a perfect husband: he never picked up anything from the floor, or turned out a light, or closed a door.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#7. [On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation ... No investigation of yours would succeed in attaining the proof, and yet, once seen you immediately believe you would have discovered it.

Proclus

#8. In what manner was she beautiful? I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying too much. Say

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.

Proclus

#11. Thou seest, thou wicked varlet, now, what's come upon thee: thou art to continue, now, thou varlet; thou art to continue.

Lorna Sage

#12. A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

Proclus

#13. I never got int the library thing. I always liked that I could put my hand on a book when I wanted it. And to know I owned them; that was important too.

Deborah Meyler

#14. Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

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#15. A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

Christina Stead

#16. This therefore is Mathematics:
She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul;
She gives life to her own discoveries;
She awakens the mind and purifies the intellect;
She brings light to our intrinsic ideas;
She abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth ...

Proclus

#17. Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness- type things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it.

Joe Rogan

#18. Name it ... and if you can dream it ... you can achieve it.

Wayne Dyer

#19. Wherever there is a number, there is beauty.

Proclus