“gereksiz derinlik, düşünceyi bulandırır,zayıflatır.” /the murders in the rue morgue [1841]
" Delilik sandığınız şeyin sadece duyuların fazla keskinleşmesi olduğunu söylememiş miydim ben size? “
EdgarAllanPoe
The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
To look at a star by glances to view it in a side long way, by turning toward it the exterior portions of the retina more susceptible of feeble impressions of light than the interior, is to behold the star distinctly is to have the best appreciation.
Truth is not always in a well.
Gerçek her zaman bir kuyunun dibinde değildir.
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities -that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.
''The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.''
''The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.''