Benjamin Peirce on glance
Benjamin Peirce12 quotes“as it were, of the divine intellect, how instantly and entirely are human pride and vanity repressed, and, by a single glance at the glories of the infinite mind, are we humbled to the dust.”
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In every form of material manifestation, there is a corresponding form of human thought, so that the human mind is as wide in its range of thought as the physical universe in which it thinks.
Benjamin PeirceBenjamin Peirce There are many cases of these algebras which may obviously be combined into natural classes, but the consideration of this portion of the subject will be reserved to subsequent researches.
Benjamin PeirceBenjamin Peirce Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don’t know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
Benjamin PeirceBenjamin Peirce The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil of material forms, and disclose the thoughts which lie beneath them?
Benjamin PeirceBenjamin Peirce Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.
Benjamin PeirceBenjamin Peirce What is man? … What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.
Benjamin PeirceBenjamin Peirce When our researches are successful, and when a generous and heaven-eyed inspiration has elevated us above humanity, and raised us triumphantly into the very presence.
Benjamin PeirceBenjamin Peirce Whether I shall have the satisfaction of taking part in their exposition, or whether that will remain for some more profound expositor, will be seen in the future.
Benjamin PeirceBenjamin Peirce The mind of man and that of Nature’s God must work in the same channels.
Benjamin PeirceBenjamin Peirce I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical formulae, they find their origin in the divine source of all geometry.
Benjamin PeirceBenjamin Peirce How then can we help regarding the forces we see in nature as due to the will of some omnipresent, omnipotent being? Gentlemen, there must be a GOD.
Benjamin PeirceBenjamin Peirce
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MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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More on glance
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
Abraham VergheseAbraham Verghese I want to go to the ocean, Where the water is as dark as your eyes, and while the waves crash in ivory glance, I want to call you mine.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
Annie DillardAnnie Dillard Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
Ayn RandAyn Rand See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan
