Acquire Quote by Joseph de Maistre

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

— Joseph de Maistre

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret…

— Peter Greenaway

Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though…

— Maurice Druon

To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

— Pythagoras

Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of what goes…

— Gregory Bateson

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

— Kate Bush

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into…

— Hermann Weyl

Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.

— Pythagoras

Numbers are the free creation of the human mind.

— Richard Dedekind

“Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dynamic, active aspect which is especially important to keep in mind. It…

— Marie-Louise von Franz