Doxiadis Plus Quotes & Sayings

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

Beliavsky told me that, when he scolded Misha for giving to the Sports Committee almost all of his prize of several thousand dollars for winning the World Blitz Championship in Saint John, Misha simply replied: 'Well, they asked me for it and I gave it to them. — Genna Sosonko

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

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

he jumped in under the running water, squeaked as if in ecstasy, bent his legs to get deeper, and whirred his wings like an egg beater in high gear. The spray flew several meters, soaking the floor and counters near the sink. Then he jumped out dripping wet and fluttered back into the cage to shake vigorously and preen until dry. — Bernd Heinrich

Bach has taken us on a journey that we interpret and experience through our own memories, feelings and conditioning. You will respond differently from the way I do, and vice versa. That is the glory of music, especially music as immortal as this. — James Rhodes

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. — Jim Harrison

I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I'm not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things, — Rafael Nadal

I find myself going out less and less. When you're 22 and see older people start to do that, it's depressing, but once you hit 30, you think, 'Wow, I've been working all week - it might be really nice to stay in!' — Josh Radnor

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

Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing. — Jeff VanderMeer

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

(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

The human heart harbors two conflicting sentiments. Everyone of course sympathizes with people who suffer misfortunes. Yet when those people manage to overcome their misfortunes, we feel a certain disappointment. We may even feel (to overstate the case somewhat) a desire to plunge them back into those misfortunes. And before we know it, we come (if only passively) to harbor some degree of hostility toward them. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. — George Eliot

The meaning is the ending. — Apostolos Doxiadis

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs none. — William Shakespeare

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

If you don't consciously design and choose your affirmations you are susceptible to repeating and reliving the fears, insecurities, and limitations of your past. — Hal Elrod