Selected Passages
Selected passages
Music to me. ‘It makes the world bigger,’
The quickest way to understand someone is to look at what’s on their bookshelves
Everything is ridiculous after a certain point in life.
To properly know mathematics is to know the only thing that can be assuredly known. Politics and sociology and history and psychology have facts you have to interpret. But in mathematics facts are just facts. There is no arguing. There is no left-wing or right-wing algebra. There is no sin in geometry and no guilt in trigonometry. Mathematics is the purity of peace. Except, of course, it is also as mysterious and enigmatic as the whole of life, and expecting it – or anything – to conform to what I wanted it to be was a mistake. Note: aka God. maybe thats why we say Hashem Echad, with a number...
Most of life, I realised, was mystery. Even mathematics is full of mystery. We can know that every even number above two is the sum of two primes, but we don’t know why.
That is one great thing about having someone by your side. They are a shock absorber to the madness of experience.
I suppose that is one of the purposes of all reading. It helps you live lives beyond the one you are inside. It turns our single-room mental shack into a mansion. All reading, in short, is telepathy and all reading is time travel.
‘I sometimes think people who don’t like sentimentality actually don’t like feeling anything at all. They prefer to look at the whole world with scorn.’
'Let’s dance like there is a tomorrow!’
There are no real spoilers. There is always an observer effect. There is always an unknown variable, and that unknown variable is often yourself. Embrace the mystery would be my advice. Embrace the impossibility of it all. Enjoy the not-knowing.