Zeno Quotes
9 quotes by 8 authors
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Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.
— Bertrand Russell
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It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make…
— Seneca the Younger
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A woman’s beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. We’re meant to shellac our lips with five different glosses, but always…
— Molly Crabapple
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You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all…
— Seneca the Younger
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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
— Plutarch
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It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow…
— Tom Stoppard
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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a…
— John Green
Who Wrote These Zeno Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 9 Zeno Quotes as follows: