“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.”
“Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.”
El ir derecho acorta las distancias, y también la vida.
Voces (1943)
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El ir derecho acorta las distancias, y también la vida.
Voces (1943)
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Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968Related quotes
“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
“In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.”
Nun gilt für die kürzeste Verbindung zwischen zwei Personen die Gerade, so als ob sie Punkte wären.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 20
Minima Moralia (1951)
Interview by Adam Holdorf for Real Change News, (18 March 2004).
“As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.”
Source: The Political Economy Of Growth (1957), Chapter Eight, The Steep Ascent, p. 298
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Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)
Original: (it) Le anime lontane ma unite dal destino accorciano le distanze, aumentano la tensione fondendosi in un'unica ed intensa passione.
Source: prevale.net
Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat (1824)