"He is unworthy of the name of man……" — Plato

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of… - Plato

"He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side."

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There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from… — Barbara Kingsolver
My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where… — Roy Lichtenstein
A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of… — Dan Flavin
I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes… — Elizabeth Smart
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. — William Rounseville Alger
I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my… — Sylvia Plath
I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like… — David Mitchell
God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As… — Russell Brand
If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily… — Lawrence Hargrave

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