Vasco Ronchi quotes

“It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible help of mathematics can lead to conclusions which are diametrically opposite to one another.”
-- Vasco Ronchi

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“The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can.”
-- Vasco Ronchi

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“The world has found lenses on its nose without knowing whom to thank”
-- Vasco Ronchi

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“The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.”

Source : 'Uncommon Law' (1935) 'The Reasonable Man'

“After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.”

“How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.”

“Labor is the law of happiness.”

“When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.”

“The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.”

“The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.”

Source : Alain Badiou (2002). “Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil”, p.52, Verso

“Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.”

“What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.”

Source : Adelbert von Chamisso, Prosper Mérimée, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “3 great classics”

“If there is any one thing most needed in this time of tumult and frustration, when men and women and youth and young adults are desperately seeking for answers to the problems which afflict mankind, it is an "iron rod" as a safe guide along the straight path on the way to eternal life, amidst the strange and devious roadways that would eventually lead to destruction and to the ruin of all that is "virtuous, lovely, or of good report."”