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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When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power.
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God is unlimited and infinite with respect to time; He is eternal. God is unlimited and unaffected by space; He is present everywhere at the same time.
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Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.
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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.
