It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
Interpretation
Mathematics transcends mere numbers and quantities, embodying deeper concepts and ideas.
This quote by George Boole suggests that mathematics is not limited to the study of numbers and quantities, but instead encompasses a broader scope of ideas, principles, and relationships. It emphasizes that mathematics involves logical reasoning, structures, and abstract thought, which can be applied beyond the confines of numerical interpretation.
In practice
A teacher explaining the nature of mathematics in a seminar.
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.
No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.
The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.
Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
When you know that everything happens for the best, then everything that happens is okay with you. The irony of this is that when everything that happens is okay with you, you set up an energy field of such equanimity and harmony with the universe that the universal law of attraction draws more equanimity and harmony into your life.
Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care of itself. You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait with improving others until we see ourselves as we are/ and have changed. There is no need to turn round and round in endless questioning; find yourself and everything will fall into its proper place.
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