QUANTITATIVE, THE
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Einstein, quoted by Graham Farmelo, Guardian Review, 6 Sep 2003, 13.
9/03
QUARREL
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric, out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
Yeats, W B, quoted by John Carey (book review), Sunday Times, 4 April 1993, Books 3.
4/93
QUEST
Kabir saith: It is the spirit of the quest that helpeth. I am the slave of the spirit of the quest.
Kabir, One Hundred Poems of Kabir (trans. Tagore, MacMillan, 1914).
12/84
QUEST, HEROIC
Finding is the first Act
The second, loss,
Third, Expedition for the ‘Golden Fleece’//
Fourth, no Discovery –
Fifth, no Crew –
Finally, no Golden Fleece –
Jason, sham, too –
Dickinson, Emily.
8/99
QUESTIONS, EXISTENTIAL
Where am I? What does it mean to say: the world?… Who tricked me into this whole thing and leaves me standing here?… Why was I not asked about it, why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought from a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? … Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?
Kierkegaard, from Fear and Trembling, quoted Guardian Review, August 28, 2004 (from Internet).
8/04
QUESTS, TWO
In each one of us there are two ruling and impelling principles whose guidance we follow, a desire for pleasure, which is innate, and an acquired conviction which causes us to aim at excellence. … [The latter] is rational, and the power by which it masters us we call self-control; [the former] is irrational, and when it gets the upper hand in us, its dominion is called excess.
Plato, Phaedrus, Socrates’ 1st speech, Walter Hamilton translation (Penguin Classics).
5/98
Ratnaprabha = Robin Cooper 