Algebra/history

Famous quotes containing the words algebra and/or history:

    “Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    “The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)