"For we may remark generally of our mathematical researches, that these auxiliary quantities, these long and difficult calculations into which we are often drawn, are almost always proofs that we have not in the beginning considered the objects themselves so thoroughly and directly as their nature requires, since all is abridged and simplified, as soon as we place ourselves in a right point of view."
React to this quote
Resonant Thoughts
"“After returning to Birdhul, he again pursued the Raja to Kandur… The Rai again escaped him, and he ordered a general massacre at Kandur. It was then ascertained that he had fled to Jalkota… There the…"
"This sets us off on a path which was opened for us almost without our knowledge, I think, for we have not really considered it, by two philosophers in history: Spinoza and Marx. Against what should re…"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery."
— Herman Melville"No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversatio…"
— Ben Elton"Losing a mother seems to me one of the cruelest acts of nature. I have lost three."
— Abel Azcona"The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are str…"
— George Orwell"I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had t…"
— Cass Elliot"The sound of the human voice is the best of nature but only if it comes out from the feelings."
— Giovanni Morassutti
