Abolish Quote by Proclus

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has…

— Wilkie Collins

Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted…

— Baldassare Castiglione

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Everything intellectual and transcendent is joined together in painting by the uninterrupted labour of the eyes. Each shade of a flower, a face, a…

— Max Beckmann

“there is a depth to life beyond the simple dimensions that she can perceive and calculate in, and so . . . who knows?”

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“She was her own kind of dreamer, a blind mathematician skating along the thin surface of life, believing in the saving power of logic,…

— Jessica Shattuck

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty— a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part…

— Bertrand Russell

If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than…

— Michael Cunningham

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out…

— Marston Morse

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of…

— Bertrand Russell

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

— Bertrand Russell

“So you see that the eye of the intellect has received supernatural light, infused by grace, by which the doctors and saints knew light…

— Catherine of Siena