Doxiadis Quotes & Sayings

What has more value in this world? That which is in shortage. — Dada Bhagwan

I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

The meaning of the world does not reside in the world. — Apostolos Doxiadis

The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important. — Apostolos Doxiadis

The meaning is the ending. — Apostolos Doxiadis

The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings. — Apostolos Doxiadis

Cat will have you staked in five seconds flat. — Cheyenne McCray

When Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see: 'All the facts of science are not enough to understand the world's meaning! — Apostolos Doxiadis

Well, the Dean has asked me to speak on "The Role of Logic in Human Affairs". Of course, if I take the injunction literally you shall hear the shortest lecture in recorded history! — Apostolos Doxiadis

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman ... Which is probably the same thing! — Apostolos Doxiadis

Ah, the superior masochism of the privileged. — Apostolos Doxiadis

I don't regret doing 'The Living Daylights'. If I hadn't done Bond, I wouldn't have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life. — Maryam D'Abo

(which has inspired at least one novel, Apostolos Doxiadis's Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture29). — John Derbyshire

We do not learn only from great minds; we learn from everyone, if only we observe and inquire. — C.A. Doxiadis

When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts. — Victoria Justice

Money corrupts so, best give it to the already corrupted. — Apostolos Doxiadis

As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such challenges. And anyway, they are not competent. After all, they are just mathematicians-what we need is paramathematicians, like you ... It is you who can be the welding force, between mathematicians and stories, in order to achieve the synthesis. — Apostolos Doxiadis

All the facts of science aren't enough to understand the world's meaning. For this, you must step outside the world."
"Without language of thought, how can you understand anything?"
"Who knows, maybe by whistling? — Apostolos Doxiadis

You remember how much I come?

~Rush — Laura Wright