Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't … - Apostolos Doxiadis

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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

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!

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

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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.

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