Number Quotes - page 13

There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders. (Jack McDevitt)
The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech. View quote
Mark Twain
When there are such lands there should be profitable things without number. View quote
Christopher Columbus
A male has the right to wander about as he pleases. He has the right to marry any number of girls. This practice has led to prostitution. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Being number two sucks. View quote
Andre Agassi
The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
The increase of social wealth is not accompanied by a diminishing number of capitalist magnates, but by an increasing number of capitalists of all degrees. View quote
Eduard Bernstein
It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself. View quote
Barack Obama
If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. (Barack Obama)
An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type. View quote
Georg Cantor
The old and oft-repeated proposition "Totum est majus sua parte" [the whole is larger than the part] may be applied without proof only in the case of entities that are based upon whole and part; then and only then is it an undeniable consequence of the concepts "totum" and "pars". Unfortunately, however, this "axiom" is used innumerably often without any basis and in neglect of the necessary distinction between "reality" and "quantity", on the one hand, and "number" and "set", on the other, precisely in the sense in which it is generally false. View quote
Georg Cantor
Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number. View quote
Georg Cantor
The Capitalist system with its exploitation of those who are economically weak, with its robbery of the workers labour power, with its unethical way of appraising human beings by the number of things and the amount of money he possesses, instead of by their internal value and their achievements, must be replaced by a new and just economic system, in a word by German Socialism. View quote
Gregor Strasser
The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at which it ceases to care not only about such metaphysical entities but also about murders perpetrated behind closed frontiers or simply in the dark, one would have to conclude that the concepts of such murders have no meaning, that they represent no ‘distinct ideas' or truths, since they do not make any ‘sensible difference to anybody. View quote
Max Horkheimer
The most superficial fact regarding the Discourses, the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's History, compelled us to start a chain of tentative reasoning which brings us suddenly face to face with the only New Testament quotation that ever appears in Machiavelli's two books and with an enormous blasphemy. View quote
Leo Strauss
All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these. View quote
Wilhelm von Humboldt
The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius. (Otto Weininger)
I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices. View quote
Heinz von Foerster
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from. View quote
Vernon Howard
All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite. View quote
Anaxagoras
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion, mysticism is being taken seriously even within the scientific community. An increasing number of scientists are aware that mystical thought provides a consistent and relevant philosophical background to the theories of Contemporary science, a conception of the world in which the scientific discoveries of men and women can be in perfect harmony with their spiritual aims and religious beliefs. View quote
Fritjof Capra