Imaginary Number Domain

Famous quotes containing the words imaginary, number and/or domain:

“Don’t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

“There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)