
Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 37
Source: Stay
Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 37
“We cannot reach the truth, but we can get close to it through beauty.”
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Context: Beauty is the maximum limit we can access through language. We cannot reach the truth, but we can get close to it through beauty.
Attributed to Miller in: Michael A. Kirchubel (2009). Vile Acts of Evil - Volume 1 - Banking in America. p. 224
"For This I Have Laid Down My Life", p. 12
Unfinished Pilgrimage (1995)
Die Wahrheit widerspricht unserer Natur, der Irrthum nicht, und zwar aus einem sehr einfachen Grunde: die Wahrheit fordert, daß wir uns für beschränkt erkennen follen, der Irrthum schmeichelt uns. wir seien auf ein- oder die andere Weise unbegränzt.
Maxim 310, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
"Mathematical Games", in Scientific American (October 1973); also quoted in Roger B. Nelson, Proofs Without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking (1993), "Introduction", p. v