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Gods have bloody hands.
Every man heals himself.
I'm reverent from a distance.
Time is so...fluid where I live
"I see it, but I don't believe it."
A good proof is one that makes us wiser.
And as for death - we get what we expect.
The final philosophy is the ontology of God.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
What is needed is never to be had without price.
If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.
All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.
Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods
You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.
Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.
Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.
Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.
Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.
If, as you teach, the universe has no beginning and no end, why should we?
We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.
There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.
I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.
It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.
The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.
We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.
Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.
In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.
The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.
Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can never reach a point so high that it will be unable to attain any greater increase.
Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors a century ago and obtain direct visual experience of phenomena in a dimension higher than our own.
The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.
This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!
Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.
A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen there are people who do not understand mathematics? If mathematics invokes only the rules of logic, such as are accepted by all normal minds...how does it come about that so many persons are here refractory?