“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
Brace Yourself: The Five Heresies
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“The formula 'two plus two equals five' is not without its attractions.”
Part 1, Chapter 9 (page 31)
Notes from Underground (1864)
Source: The Alphabet of Grace
Source: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 8, “Connecting Ourselves with Others, Without Recourse to a Good Story” (p. 148)
“Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence”
Source: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 107 (The Mathematics of Incompetence)
“Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.”
As quoted in Hermann Weyl, "Emmy Noether" (April 26, 1935) in Weyl's Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy (2012) p. 64.
“I guess 14% plus Jesus equals victory”