15 Quotes by Apostolos Doxiadis

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

Pon un hombre al filo del abismo y -en el improbable caso de que no se caiga- se convertirá en un místico o en un loco... ¡Lo que probablemente sea lo mismo!

It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Well, the Dean has asked me to speak on "The Role of Logic in Human Affairs". Of course, if I take the injunction literally you shall hear the shortest lecture in recorded history!

when Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see: 'All the facts of science are not enough to understand the world's meaning!

The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and--in the unlikely event that he doesn't fall into it--he will become either a mystic or a madman...which is probably the same thing!

The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important.

The meaning of the world does not reside in the world.