Famous quotes containing the words wilhelm, jordan and/or elimination:
“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth—whatever the truth may be—that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.”
—June Jordan (b. 1936)
“The kind of Unitarian
Who having by elimination got
From many gods to Three, and Three to One,
Thinks why not taper off to none at all.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)