Quotes from Apostolos Doxiadis

The proverbial 'mad mathematician' was more fact than fancy.

The amalgam of Truth and Beauty revealed through the understanding of an important theorem cannot be attained through any other human activity, unless it be (I wouldn't know) that of mystical religion.

Could my uncle have finally become unhinged?

one should be brutally honest with oneself about weaknesses, acknowledge them with courage and chart further course accordingly.

Success in life is to be measured by the goals you've set yourself. There are tens of thousands of new theorems published every year the world over, but no more than a handful per century that make history!

He smiled, sadly. 'You know the popular saying that the three conditions impossible to conceal are a cough, wealth and being in love? Well, to me there is a fourth: mathematical gift.

You should know — Aesop was a Greek.' 'What's Aesop got to do with it?

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