Quotes About Philosophy

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.

And this means that time is a mystery, and not even a thing, and no one has ever solved the puzzle of what time is, exactly. and so, if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert, except that you can't see the desert because it is not a thing. And this is why I like timetables, because they make sure you don't get lost in time

The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be. […] Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

Maybe it wasn't God after all, maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.

prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

I numeri primi sono ciò che rimane una volta eliminati tutti gli schemi: penso che i numeri primi siano come la vita. Sono molto logici ma non si riesce mai a scoprirne le regole, anche se si passa tutto il tempo a pensarci su

quod erat demonstrandum, which is Latin for which is the thing that was going to be proved, which means thus it is proved.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

penso che i numeri primi siano come la vita. Sono molto logici ma non si riesce mai a scoprirne le regole, anche se si passa tutto il tempo pensarci su.

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't bout good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers at the end.

And this means that time is a mystery,not even a thing,and no one has ever solved the puzzle of what time is,exactly. And so, if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert,except that you can't see the desert because it's not a thing

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.

To be honest, I'm trying to maintain a Buddhist detachment about the whole thing to stop it taking ten years off my life.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Which is Latin and it means No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.

And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of being new.

a living. Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

Prvo?ísla jsou to, co zbyde, když odstraníte vÅ¡echna pravidla. Já myslím, že prvo?ísla jsou jako život. Jsou velmi logická, ale pravidla pro nÄ› nevymyslíte, ani kdybyste nad nimi strávili vÅ¡echen ?as.

you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason.

What would happen if we took everything that exists in the universe, and divided it by one? I'll tell you. It would remain the same. So, therefore, how do we know that someone isn't doing that right now, at this very instant? It makes me shudder to think of it. We might be constantly divided by one, or multiplied by one for that matter, and we wouldn't even know it!

the intellect is of no use unless it's disciplined by the mortification of the flesh, so that it may serve the soul.

I've given myself to you. You may have my body, soul, everything. Time passes, and all I want is the intimacy that slows, defeats. and confounds it. Love, that's what it is. You've always made the mistake that men often make, and carried forward the great fault that mars civilisation, which is that you believe that your philosophy is deeper than love.