"The Mathematical Theory of the Top" (April 8, 1898)
Context: Turning to Klein's little book, one is astonished in finding the most general aspects of the subject treated almost without computation and in so little space.... It would have cost little to give the expanded form of the σ-function.... Weierstrass's original notation was in terms of Abelian functions. The tremendous development of s is out of proportion with their application to natural phenomena. Meeting them rarely one forgets them. Memory peters out like the infinite series of a ζ-function.
"The Flower of Coleridge" ["La flor de Coleridge"] — The title of this work makes reference to a line by Samuel Coleridge in Anima Poetæ : From the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895), p. 282 : "If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye, what then?"
Other Inquisitions (1952)
“In the universe there is room for an infinite series of beginnings.”
Advice to Clever Children (1981)
Vie de Jésus (Paris: Flammarion, 1936) p. 257; Julie Kernan (trans.) Life of Jesus (New York: David McKay, [1937] 1951) p. 223.
Context: Very little would have been needed for the tears of Judas to be allied in the memory of mankind with those of Peter. He might have become a saint, the patron of all of us who constantly betray Christ.
Source: The Power of Myth
“.. the function of art work is.... the renewal of memories of moments of perfection.”
remark in 1973; as quoted by Amy Flanagan in [file:///C:/Users/Fons/Downloads/The%20Subtle%20Emotive%3B%20Agnes%20Martin.pdf 'The Subtle emotive; Material and Experience in the Works of Agnes Martin'], essay redraft, 2015, p. 1
1970's
As quoted in Familiar Medical Quotations (1968) by Maurice Benjamin Strauss, p. 288
1960s
Introduction
L'eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams) 1942
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Human Immortality: its Positive Argument, p.299
