Apostolos Doxiadis quotes
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“Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!”
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“We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.”
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“As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such challenges. And anyway, they are not competent. After all, they are just mathematicians-what we need is paramathematicians, like you... It is you who can be the welding force, between mathematicians and stories, in order to achieve the synthesis.”
-- Apostolos Doxiadis
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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