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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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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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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We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation]. . . . This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.
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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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It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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We can learn from everybody, man.
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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.
