Paul Carus

Quotes

• “The deva asked,What causes ruin in the world?What breaks off friendships?What is the most violent fever?Who is the best physician?"The Blessed One replied,Ruin in the world is caused by ignorance;friendships are broken off by envy and selfishness;the most violent fever is hatred;the best physician is the Buddha.”
• “No one saves us but ourselves, No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path Buddhas merely teach the way. By ourselves is evil done, By ourselves we pain endure, By ourselves we cease from wrong, By ourselves become we pure.”
• “The truth is that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods of space measurements. There is one space only, though we may conceive of many different manifolds, which are contrivances or ideal constructions invented for the purpose of determining space.”
• “Pythagoras says that number is the origin of all things, and certainly the law of number is the key that unlocks the secrets of the universe. But the law of number possesses an immanent order, which is at first sight mystifying, but on a more intimate acquaintance we easily understand it to be intrinsically necessary; and this law of number explains the wondrous consistency of the laws of nature.”
• “There is no prophet which preaches the superpersonal God more plainly than mathematics.”
• “There is no science which teaches the harmonies of nature more clearly than mathematics.”

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