Apostolos Doxiadis Quotes

Greece, Writer
June 6, 1953 – January, 1, 1975.

Apostolos K. Doxiadis was a Greek writer. He is best known for his international bestsellers Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (2000) and Logicomix (2009).

The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.

Apostolos Doxiadis
- Habit
- Emotion
- Instinct
The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important.

Apostolos Doxiadis
- Important
- Things
- Talked

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.

Apostolos Doxiadis
- World
- Wisdom
- Information
Money corrupts so, best give it to the already corrupted.

Apostolos Doxiadis
- Money
- Give
- Corrupts
Sometimes, the best argument in favour of the old... is the new!

Apostolos Doxiadis
- New
- Old
- Argument
Success in life is to be measured by the goals you’ve set yourself.

Apostolos Doxiadis
- Success
- Goals
- Measured
Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

Apostolos Doxiadis
- Man
- Abyss
- Mystic
The meaning of the world does not reside in the world.

Apostolos Doxiadis
- World
- Meaning
- Reside

It's been said before: The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Apostolos Doxiadis
- Sleep
- Monsters
- Produces
The meaning is the ending.

Apostolos Doxiadis
- Meaning
- Ending