Attention Quote by Simone Weil

“A vast dawning entirety lies before the soul, our senses lose themselves in it as do our eyes and oh! we long to make…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not always profitless. For the…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

— Plato

“O the grey dull day! It seemed a limbo of painless patient consciousness through which souls of mathematicians might wander, projecting long slender fabrics…

— James Joyce

It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move…

— Sarah Smiley

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something…

— Victor Hugo

“The soul which fathoms every league of the celestial arc--knows, as a mariner the sea, the distant latitudes where comets flame, and worlds career,…

— E.H. Chapin

“To the east, the full light of day beamed toward you; to the west, night reigned with no hint of surrender. No philosopher can…

— Paul Kalanithi

“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

The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the…

— Benjamin Peirce

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from…

— Plato

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson