Ratio Quotes

“They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take place.

The measure of the probability of an event is the ratio of the number of cases favourable to that event, to the total number of cases favourable or contrary, and all equally possible.”
― Siméon Denis Poisson

“(...) it is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“The ego is the banal, the ratio the aggravated, the soul the noble. / Das Ego ist das Banale, die Ratio das Verschärfte, die Seele das Edle.”
― Ingmar Veeck

“What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people. (...) Culture does not make people. People make culture.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Within idealism, the epistemological form is the most common variant. This means that we can only know reality through our senses and our own thought processes. When you consider this carefully, it makes a compelling point: we have no direct access to the world. Everything passes through observations gathered by our own eyes and through reasonings occurring within our own brains. There is no direct knowledge of the world independent of the person possessing that knowledge. Consequently, we can only know the world through our senses and our own minds.”
― Johan Wagemans