Alas Quote by L. E. J. Brouwer Download Open image “Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.” — L. E. J. Brouwer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alas Illusion Spheres Transparent Truth
When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded. — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The truth is unattainable...It will always be shrouded in fog. Though you reach through the murk and the gloom to grasp something, you have… — Persona 4 Copy Share Image
One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of… — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
...an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a… — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
Oil is seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing theories existing… — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
