Arithmetic Quote by Jean Cocteau Download Open image “The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.” — Jean Cocteau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arithmetic Cages Composer Doors Draftsman Freedom Geometry Giving Math Mathematical Mathematics
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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato Copy Share Image
“I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits; and 'tis found They go on such strange geometrical hinges,… — John Webster Copy Share Image
The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“If you can choose your way into a cage, you can choose your way out.” — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
“On Plato’s door, it says let no one enter who does not know geometry. On Love’s door, it says let no one enter who… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind seizes before… — Alan Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“Additions like to enter without knocking, you just have to close the door for good...” — Alen Sargsyan Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
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Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
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