Ontology Quotes - Page 3

• Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.

  Janet Morris

  Life, Loyalty, Choices

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• Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Simple, Two, Intellectual

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• 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.

  Rene Descartes

  Real, Roots, Logic

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• Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could their mere arrangement produce a noisy, colourful, world in which day followed night and animals generated their own kind? Instead of a world created, cared, for and supervised by supernatural persons, the Epicureans appeared to the theologians to be assigning everything to chance. The latter were appalled by Lucretius's view of religion as cruel and oppressive and by the Epicurean insistence that death is the end of all experience.

  Catherine Wilson

  Animal, Night, Views

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• Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving devotion, the hurricane pauses and calms. Its ravings turn to mutters.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Determination, Revenge

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.491, Paradise Publishing

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• The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In both cases, the increased level of abstraction demands greater effort on the part of anyone who wants to understand the work.

  Keith Devlin

  Art, Effort, Levels

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• 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!

  Georg Cantor

  Views, Lasts, Firsts

  "Journey Through Genius". Book by William Dunham, 1990.

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• 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.

  Georg Cantor

  Mind, Myopia, Infinity

  "Infinity and the Mind". Book by Rudy Rucker, 1982.

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• No mercy goes unpunished by the angry gods.

  Critias

  God, Mercy, Angry

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• Gods have bloody hands.

  Janet Morris

  God, Hands, Bloody

  Janet Morris (1986). “Beyond Sanctuary”, Ace Books

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• All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.

  Janet Morris

  War, Tricksters, Worst

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.229, Paradise Publishing

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• Time is so...fluid where I live

  Janet Morris

  Time, Fluid

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.160, Paradise Publishing

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• So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Father, Singing

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.101, Paradise Publishing

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• It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance...no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all.

  Janet Morris

  Life, Evil, Balance

  Lynn Abbey, C. J. Cherryh, Janet Morris (1986). “Soul of the city”, Ace Books

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• This was what men fought for, what men died for: a chance at life, and to fight on other days - the battle of your choice, of the body, or the heart, or the soul.

  Janet Morris

  Life, Heart, Fighting

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.286, Paradise Publishing

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• I'm reverent from a distance.

  Janet Morris

  Distance, Self Reliance, Belief

  Janet Morris (1986). “Beyond Sanctuary”, Ace Books

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• Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic.

  Jim Steinmeyer

  Magic, Cards, Brilliant

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• My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.

  Georg Cantor

  Archer, Years, Roots

  "Journey Through Genius". Book by William Dunham, 1990.

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• 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.

  Thomas Banchoff

  Dream, Today, Firsts

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• The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.

  Thomas Banchoff

  Powerful, Technique, Tools

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• Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Infinity, Logic, Certainty

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• You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.

  David Auburn

  Running, Jobs, Book

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• It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

  Lance Armstrong

  Children, Cancer, Bravery

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• I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it - and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Light, People, Effort

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• In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Order, Holocaust

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