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)

    “I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passé abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.”
    —Camille Paglia (b. 1947)