Archive for June, 2005

Goethe

« 30 June 2005 | 6:40 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.



Piet Hein

« 29 June 2005 | 7:17 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Wisdom Is -
Wisdom is
the booby prize
given when you’ve been
unwise.



Euclid

« 28 June 2005 | 6:59 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Proof. Suppose that p1=2 < p2 = 3 < … < pr are all of the primes. Let P = p1p2…pr+1 and let p be a prime dividing P; then p can not be any of p1, p2, …, pr, otherwise p would divide the difference P-p1p2…pr=1, which is impossible. So this prime p is [...]



Lewis Caroll

« 27 June 2005 | 8:50 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

“I see nobody on the road,” said Alice.
“I only wish I had such eyes,” the King remarked in a fretful tone. “To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too! Why, it’s as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!”



Friedrich Nietzsche

« 26 June 2005 | 7:30 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.



Eugene Guillevic

« 25 June 2005 | 8:30 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Elegies
He probably held too tightly
(In the palm of his hand,
Looking out on the sea)
To the sand the wind
Was taking, grain by grain –
He who is held by the fear
Of becoming mist.
Il aura trop tenu
Dans le fond de sa paume
En face de la mer
Du sable que le vent
Y prenait grain par grain
Celui que tient la peur
De [...]