Michael Harris (1954) American mathematician
Source: Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation, 2015, p. 24
Session 740, Page 618
The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two, (1979)
Context: You are not a miniature self, an adjunct to some superbeing, never to share fully In its reality. In those terms you are that superself - looking out of only one eye, or using just one finger. Much of this is very difficult to verbalize. You are not subordinate to some giant consciousness. While you think in such terms, however, I must speak of reincarnational selves counterparts, because you are afraid that if you climb out of what you think your identity is, then you will lose it.
Michael Harris (1954) American mathematician
Source: Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation, 2015, p. 24
Diane Ackerman book A Natural History of the Senses
Source: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 3 “Taste” (p. 130)
“Focus on giants - you stumble.
Focus on God - Giants tumble.”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
Source: Cast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God
Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays
Anarchism: What it Really Stands For http://books.google.com/books?id=U5ZYAAAAMAAJ&q="Anarchism+is+the+only+philosophy+which+brings+to+man+the+consciousness+of+himself+which+maintains+that+God+the+State+and+society+are+non-existent+that+their+promises+are+null+and+void+since+they+can+be+fullfilled+only+through+man's+subordination"&pg=PA58#v=onepage (1910)
Matthew Green (1696–1737) British writer
Source: aQuotes, The Spleen (1737), Line 89.
Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 48
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
Source: The Principles of Ethics (1897), Part I: The Data of Ethics, Ch. 7, The Psychological View
“This is just so typical of you, Alwin, to be in love with a giant ass.”
Rudy Rucker (1946) American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
Source: The Sex Sphere (1983), p. 111
William Beveridge Beveridge Report
Pt. 1, 8
Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942)
Context: Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.