Cassius Jackson Keyser Quotes
Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

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My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.
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It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention to the truth in an extraordinarily compassionate and tender and loving spirit.
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No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
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I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
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Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.
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When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.
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They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
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I think that there's an infinite amount of places where you can stick a camera. There's an infinite amount of choices of what could be going on. There's an infinite amount of places for so many things, so you have to figure out how to do your job.
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Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.
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So many people in this world get up every day and go to their nine-to-five job they hate for 12 months a year for 30 years. I kind of do a self-check and evaluation to realize I'm very blessed and grateful to be where I am.
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Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.
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The mighty hopes that make us men.
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Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.