“Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.”

Source: Thief of Time

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English author 1948–2015

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“The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.”

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist

Source: Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law

“I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die”

Tony Kushner Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Source: Angels in America

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

“You must understand the whole of life,
not just one little part of it.
that is why you must read,
that is why you must look at the skies,
that is why you must sing and dance,
and write poems and suffer and understand,
for all that is life.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher

“I always want to try to understand why things work. I’m not interested in getting a formula without knowing what it means. I always try to dig behind the scenes, so if I have a formula, I understand why it’s there. And understanding is a very difficult notion.People think mathematics begins when you write down a theorem followed by a proof. That’s not the beginning, that’s the end. For me the creative place in mathematics comes before you start to put things down on paper, before you try to write a formula. You picture various things, you turn them over in your mind. You’re trying to create, just as a musician is trying to create music, or a poet. There are no rules laid down. You have to do it your own way. But at the end, just as a composer has to put it down on paper, you have to write things down. But the most important stage is understanding. A proof by itself doesn’t give you understanding. You can have a long proof and no idea at the end of why it works. But to understand why it works, you have to have a kind of gut reaction to the thing. You’ve got to feel it.”

Michael Atiyah (1929–2019) British mathematician

On an article by Quanta magazine(when asked: Is there one big question that has always guided you?) https://www.quantamagazine.org/michael-atiyahs-mathematical-dreams-20160303

“THREE THINGS TO REMEMBER As long as you’re dancing, you can break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: A Thousand Mornings

““They (i. e., the Olympian gods) operate on moral principles. You have to break a promise to them, or break a rule, for them to get power over you.”
Victor commented darkly, “That explains why religions have rules no one can follow. If everyone is a sinner, by definition, everyone is under their power.””

John C. Wright (1961) American novelist and technical writer

Source: Fugitives of Chaos (2006), Chapter 9, “Wings” (p. 142)

“The more you think about things, the weirder they seem. Take this milk. Why do we drink COW milk?? Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!'?”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

“If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.”

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