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  1. Few More Sayings

    “She was wearing the rose in her hair, and I was brushing off the snow from my jacket.”

    “Sometimes freedom throws itself around your arms as unrequited love.”

    “In friendship there is a giving without any expectation and a receiving without any obligation.”

    “It is so sad that till now I have recognized instantly every friend I have met no matter how long it was since we last met.”

    “One kind of bad karma, there are many kinds mind you, is when people start laughing more at you than at your jokes.”

    “Gandhi is supposed to have said, ‘My life is my message.’ I, not being so profound, can only say, ‘My life is my joke’.”

    “Ghar waapsi karna chahta hoon. Lekin kitna bi sonchoo ya dhoondoon pata hi nahi lag raa ghar ka pataa.”

    “Hell is your underemployed and unmarried friend with access to WhatsApp.”

    “Do not ruin the present by trying to make the future brighter. Light the candle now, and read in its soft glow, now, this moment, do not postpone.”

    “Women contain men — wo(men) — confine them, restrict them, enclose them, imprison them, not in the tight embrace of their arms but merely parenthetically.”

    “No one here on earth can understand God because we can never love one another with a love that passeth understanding.”

    “When I cannot understand even her, how can I hope to understand God.”

    “Those who read history carefully, will find it difficult to believe in the existence of God.”

    “Jesus might as well have said love thy wife as thyself, for the wifey is one’s most immediate and present neighbour, much to the consternation of some husbands.”

    #Bible #CarpeDiem #Freedom #Friendship #Gandhi #GharWaapsi #God #Hell #history #Jesus #Karma #Love #LoveThyNeighbour #Present #QuotableQuotes #Quotations #Quote #Quotes #UnrequitedLove
  2. A Few Sayings

    “Buddha misread the origins of suffering. The cause of suffering is God’s desire to appear as this creation.”

    “This is the mistake we keep making that we seek the truth with our mind and love with our heart, without realizing that only when we set aside the mind and heart will we find the truth and love that we seek.”

    “When you set aside the mind and heart, you reach that state of aloneness that is also oneness in which there can be no loneliness.”

    “The longing for the home is the cause for all the strife in this world. To feel at home anywhere and everywhere is freedom.”

    “Morality is duality. Recognize God in and as not only the good and virtuous but also as the bad and wicked.”

    “The world is not merely that which is revealed by the microscope and telescope.”

    “Hum bahut kuch pade hai, aur abh uljhan may pade ahi.”

    “One of the advantages of being a theist is that one can leave the bloody work of revolutions to God, trusting he will bring them about in his own inimitable ways, and rest comfortably in one’s drawing room, reading The Motorcycle Diaries.”

    #Freedom #God #Heart #Home #Love #Mind #QuotableQuotes #Quotations #Quote #Quotes #Revolution #TheMotorcycleDiaries #Theist #Truth #World
  3. Recent Sayings

    “The more significant question always is “Do you love?” rather than “Do you love me?”. Why? Because love is a state of being without any particular direction. All directed love is a lower form of love, though such directed love can also be beautiful.”

    “Nididhyasana is the wedge of wisdom interposed between a stimulus and our response to it.”

    “Nididhyasana is nothing but looking at everything with the eyes of wisdom.”

    The quickest way to discover the Truth is to “go rogue”.”

    “Why even do Nididhyasana when the entity that thinks it ought to do it is unreal.”

    “The ultimate Nididhyasana is the questioning of the very need for Nididhyasana.”

    “Is love an escape from Truth?”

    “In this world everyone loves their own happiness most, so who can love whom as their first love?”

    “I knew God was up to his usual mischief when I became aware that he had given me a heart.”

    “The asymmetry of the heartbeats is the most annoying thing for all of us, ain’t it?”

    “Intellectually, I am a sage. Emotionally, I am just a teenager.”

    “Buddha’s First Noble Truth seems untrue when you are in the arms of a woman.”

    “I keep wanting the love of a woman. Then I ask myself do I want love or do I want the woman. In understanding that distinction there is a possibility of getting enlightened.”

    “I hope to find in silence what I could not find in the world.”

    “Even in the depths of hatred, Truth awaits you.”

    “Your own love, be it love for others or love for truth, takes care of you much more than the love of others for you.”

    #God #Happiness #Hatred #Hheart #Love #LoveOfAWoman #Nididhyasana #QuotableQuotes #Quotations #Quote #Quotes #Truth
  4. Thoughts Close to Midnight

    “One has to strike a balance between ‘making a living’ and ‘living’.”

    “Most people foolishly let the marketplace enter their hearts.”

    “Ask yourself how differently you would approach life if you realized happiness is within.”

    “The greatest risk to one’s freedom is marriage. Yet marriage continues to be popular as an institution across all cultures in all epochs maybe because “it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity” as George Bernard Shaw put it.”

    “Most people derive their happiness from physical pleasures, a few from intellectual pleasures, and hardly anyone from their own self.”

    #Freedom #GBShaw #Happiness #Heart #IntellectualPleasures #MakingALiving #Marriage #PhysicalPleasures #QuotableQuotes #Quotations #Quote #Quotes
  5. I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
    -- Marlene Dietrich

    #Wisdom #Quotes #MarleneDietrich #Quotations

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  6. Playful Math 184: Carnival of Living Math

    Welcome to the 184th edition of the Playful Math Education Blog Carnival — a smorgasbord of delectable tidbits of mathy fun. It’s like a free online magazine devoted to learning, teaching, and playing around with math from preschool to high school.

    With all the links, a blog carnival can feel overwhelming. Bookmark this article, so you can take your time reading the posts.

    “Living math” means bringing our children face-to-face with the big ideas of mathematics to help them develop their reasoning skills. When the ideas of math come to life for our children, their minds delight in seeing how numbers and shapes connect to each other and exploring these relationships.

    Scattered between the playful math links below, you’ll find quotations from my new book Charlotte Mason’s Living Math, along with several paintings of children playing and learning which I considered for the book but ran out of room.

    “The lesson” by Rafael Frederico, 1895.

    By tradition, we start the carnival with a puzzle/activity in honor of our 184th edition. But if you’d rather jump straight to our featured blog posts, click here to see the Table of Contents.

    Puzzle: Playing with Primes

    Prussian mathematician Christian Goldbach, in correspondence with Swiss polymath Leonhard Euler, posed several ideas about number theory (the study of natural numbers) which he couldn’t prove. The version we know now as Goldbach’s Conjecture is:

    Every even natural number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers.

    Goldbach’s Conjecture is one of the oldest and best-known unsolved problems in math. It has been shown to hold for numbers less than 4 × 10^18, but remains unsettled for larger numbers.

    Our carnival number can be written as the sum of primes in eight ways:

    184 = 181 + 3
    = 179 + 5
    = 173 + 11
    = 167 + 17
    = 137 + 47
    = 131 + 53
    = 113 + 71
    = 101 + 83

    184 can also be written as the sum of four consecutive prime numbers:

    184 = 41 + 43 + 47 + 53

    Play around with Goldbach’s Conjecture and prime numbers.

    • What do you notice about sums of primes?
    • What do you wonder?
    • What other questions can you ask?

    Did you know the prime numbers come in a pattern? While it can be hard to prove for sure which large numbers are prime, there are infinitely many numbers that we can be confident are not prime.

    • List some large numbers that you know are not prime. How do you know?
    • Fill in this worksheet and consider the patterns.
    • Now can you list more large numbers that are not prime? Can you tell some that might be?
    “Woman and Children in Arendal” by Edvard Munch, 1886.

    Contents

    And now, on to the main attraction: the blog posts. Some articles were submitted by their authors; others were drawn from the immense backlog in my rss reader. If you’d like to skip directly to your area of interest, click one of these links.

    • Talking Math with Kids
    • Exploring Elementary Arithmetic
    • Adventuring into Algebra and Geometry
    • Scaling the Slopes of High School Math
    • Enjoying Recreational Puzzles and Math Art
    • Teaching with Wisdom and Grace
    • Giving Credit Where It’s Due
    “The First Lesson” by Carlton Alfred Smith, 1893.

    Talking Math with Kids

    “From their birth, children have minds just like ours, hungry for knowledge and able to digest solid mental food. They enter life full of wonder, questioning, investigating the world, reasoning, and drawing conclusions.”

    —Denise Gaskins

    • Dan Finkel invents Trifle — a new, very small game. “I invented a small game off the cuff last night. I needed a super quick game to play with my 6.5-year-old before bedtime.”
    • Christopher Danielson shares the conversations that launched his yet-unpublished book: On vehicles and the meanings of words. “These questions are simple yet deep. They can inform our current conversations in which we seek to regain our understanding of truth, meaning, and empathy.”
    • Digging through Christopher Danielson’s delightful archives, I find: A circular conversation, and Doll years, and Does the Earth have an end?. “If you are new to talking math with your kids, don’t worry about getting the timing right. Just start to make a habit of asking those questions. The first few times, you may not get much. That’s OK. It can be like introducing new foods — children need multiple exposures to new things before they accept them.”
    • Tom Hobson tells how to build A State-of-the-Art Preschool Playground (for under $200) that will prompt all sorts of math (and other) talk. “As educational as these kinds of spaces are for children, these wonderlands of loose parts, dirt, rocks and compost, these bastions of junkyard chic, they are often perceived as eyesores by the uninitiated. Before going too far, you might want to save up to build a fence.”
    • Writing is talking on paper. Dylan Kane tries Incorporating more writing in 7th grade math. “Slowing down and writing about a topic is a great way to think deeply about it, to make connections, to consider hypotheticals, to reason about cause and effect.”
    • Jenna Laib gets 4th-graders writing math: How Many Nivelsnorts: Assessing Silly Story Problems. “Perhaps this speaks to who I was as a child, but there is a playfulness and a creativity to getting to write about nivelsnorts and flying tomatoes, and I don’t see a need to deny students that.”
    “Writing Lesson” by Renoir, circa 1905.

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    Exploring Elementary Arithmetic

    “That he should do sums is of comparatively small importance; but the use of those functions which ‘summing’ calls into play is a great part of education.”

    —Charlotte Mason

    • Sarah Dees explains one of my favorite math games: How to Play Target Number. “This is a fabulous math game that works for third grade all the way up through 6th. You can choose the complexity of the game by choosing how many dice to use.”
    • Erick Lee poses A Problem Worth Solving. “I liked this problem because there are so many different ways to approach it and so many interesting patterns to see while solving it.”
    • Susan Smith and Kim Montague explore Factor Puzzles: Helping Math Make Sense. “That’s the challenge we pose to students: What do you notice about the puzzle you see? What relationships pop out to you?”
    • John Golden teaches Statistics and Probability for K-8 Teachers with some fun resources: Who Wins? “Lots of great discussion about variation, mean, median and their limitations.”
    “Music Lesson” by Shirataki Ikunosuke, 1897.

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    Adventuring into Algebra and Geometry

    “If students find our lessons boring, that is because we are not engaging their minds. Children learn by thinking, imagining, reflecting, reasoning, arguing, justifying, and communicating, putting their thoughts into words. Learning, like digestion, is active.”

    —Denise Gaskins

    • Iva Sallay graphs a Cat Rotating Around a Bouncing Ball. “This year, the 9th-graders I work with at school need to know how to rotate a shape around a point that is NOT the origin. This is a topic I had never thought about before. To patch up this hole in my math knowledge, I decided to play with rotations in Desmos.”
    • Karen Latham offers suggestions for Making the Most of Probability. “I like to have students work several counting problems by hand, so they have experience simplifying expressions with factorials. Then they can move on and let the calculator do the work.”
    • David Butler plays with a geometric puzzle: When perimeter is equal to area. “One answer I discovered to this question is completely surprising and delightful to me. You may want to attempt to prove it yourself before I show you my proof…”
    • Andrew Staccy categorizes Catriona Agg’s Puzzles by Topic. “The various techniques are grouped into categories and ordered roughly by complexity. Puzzles may appear more than once as they can have multiple ways of being solved.”
    • Pat Ballew takes a look at Heron and his Formula(s). “Heron is also remembered for his invention of a primitive steam engine and many early automatons, and a coin operated vending machine, and one of the earliest forerunners of the thermometer.”
    “Children and chicken” by Gaetano Chierici, circa 1900.

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    Scaling the Slopes of High School Math

    “Never are the operations of Reason more delightful and more perfect than in mathematics. There is great joy in standing by, as it were, and watching our own thought work out an intricate problem.”

    —Charlotte Mason

    • Christopher Burke posts a series of Geometry Problems of the Day from the Regents Exam, with solutions. “This is a silly question because it’s obvious that both Choices (1) and (2) cannot both be true, so one of them must be the answer.”
    • Oliver Johnson explores the probability that your shopping receipt ends in .00: Time’s Arrow. “This ‘everything has the same chance’ collection of probabilities is called the uniform distribution, and it’s really important. But what might be surprising is how easily we reach it, and how few items we need to pick up in a supermarket to make it appear.”
    • Sue VanHattum needs beta-readers for Althea and the Mysteries of Calculus, version 8.2. “I’m still finding places where I need to add a bit to make the math clearer. Adding a touch of color here, removing something out of place there. I feel like a sculptor or painter.”
    • Erick Lee shares A Calculus Esti-Mystery. “Instead of using basic number properties for the clues, I leveled it up. To unlock the clues, my students had to evaluate derivatives.”
    “Fisherman’s Children, Capri” by Sophie Anderson, circa 1870.

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    Enjoying Recreational Puzzles and Math Art

    “We take strong ground when we appeal to the beauty and truth of Mathematics. Mathematics are to be studied for their own sake and not as they make for general intelligence and grasp of mind. But then how profoundly worthy are these subjects of study for their own sake!”

    —Charlotte Mason

    • David Butler (and daughter) explore a math/art puzzle: Jenga Views. “One thing I particularly like about them is that you don’t need an answer key, because you can just look at your construction and tell if it looks right or not. There’s something empowering about being able to check it yourself.”
    • John Golden shares a couple of shape puzzles: Five by Five, and his variation on the theme: Seven by Seven. “Easier to solve, but more solutions. Better for free play. If you made something cool, tangram style, I would love to see it!”
    • Rick Mohr welcomes us to a world of Tiled Art. “enjoy a gallery of artworks as each emerges from an underlying grid. And try creating your own tessellation, with the tiles staying interlocked automatically.”
    • I post two excerpts from my new book, Charlotte Mason’s Living Math: Discover Math in Art, and the math equation journaling prompt True-False-True. “This puzzle pushes students to consider the structure of mathematical expressions. Make it a game by letting your children challenge you, too.”
    • Andrew Taylor creates things with math. I’ve been enjoying his puzzle game Celtix. “Celtic knots are a rich tradition, but for the sake of reducing them to a game mechanic you can think of them as ribbons which ‘bounce’ off ‘walls’ which you can add by clicking anywhere that the ribbons cross each other.”
    • Paula Beardell Krieg demonstrates how to make a Cube with an Open Pocket. You may also enjoy her Snow Day Octahedrons. “I’ve been at my desk, working on geometric solids, doing art and math together. I find focus and comfort here.”
    • Ben Orlin seeks play-testers: Puzzle Planet. “Your collective generosity and wisdom help me to clarify confusing bits, fine-tune difficulty levels, cull inferior puzzles, spotlight superior ones, and sprinkle play-testers’ insight and wit throughout the text.”
    • Laura looks at the math of bell ringing: I can hear the bells. “Each bell ringer controls a huge bell, often on the order of a tonne in weight. One by one they ring their bells, then switch to a new permutation (a change) and repeat.”
    • James Propp plays around with probability: In Praise of Stupid Questions. “The way to find things out is to ask a lot of questions. Ask enough questions, and you’re likely to find a new answer: new to you, and once in a while, new to others.”
    “Interior with children playing cards” by Hugo Salmson, circa 1900.

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    Teaching with Wisdom and Grace

    “It can be exhausting to shovel information into our child’s head. We put out a lot of effort without much return, and daily lessons become a struggle of wills. But when we treat a child as a person capable of learning for himself and meet him mind-to-mind, with a focus on understanding big ideas, lessons become a delight.”

    —Denise Gaskins

    • Dan Finkel concludes that Manipulatives in Math Class Are So Worth It. “When it came to mathematizing — linking equations and the rods — the kids who had previous experience building and free playing with the rods made the connections far more readily. Playing with the rods seems to prime the mind to make connections.”
    • The Math is FigureOutAble team highlights Leonhard Euler: The Blind Mathematician Who Saw Everything. “Every student can learn to think like a mathematician. They can persist through challenges, adjust their thinking, and experience the satisfaction of figuring something out. They do not need perfect conditions or special talent. They need instruction that invites sense making and builds confidence over time.”
    • David Butler shares More wisdom from the Dodecahedron about the humanity of doing math. “I find that maths is full of emotion. Frustration, curiosity, surprise, satisfaction, pride, sadness, companionship, wonder, silliness, joy — they’re all there, sometimes in quick succession.”
    “The Knitting Lesson” by Jean-François Millet, circa 1860.

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    Giving Credit Where It’s Due

    Quotations are from my new book Charlotte Mason’s Living Math. Public domain art is primarily from Wikimedia Commons.

    And that rounds up this edition of the Playful Math Education Blog Carnival. I hope you enjoyed the ride.

    The next installment of our carnival will open sometime during the 2nd quarter of 2026 at Nature Study Australia. Visit our blog carnival information page for more details.

    “The Lesson” by Charles Chaplin, circa 1880. #Activities #AllAges #Games #MTaPPlayfulMathCarnival #Puzzles #Quotations
  7. A quotation from Montaigne

    I only quote others the better to quote myself.
     
    [Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d’autant plus me dire.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 1, ch. 25 (1.25), “Of the Education of Children [De l’institution des enfans]” (1579) [tr. Screech (1987), 1.26]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #clarity #expression #inspiration #phrasing #quotations #quoter #quoting #wording

  8. “So you banned all those books, Sadie said, and the teacher had blinked twice at her over her glasses. Oh no, sweetie, she said. People think that sometimes, but no. No one bans anything. Haven’t you ever heard of the Bill of Rights? The class giggled, and Sadie flushed. Every school makes its own independent judgments, the teacher said.”

    ― Celeste Ng, "Our Missing Hearts"

    #Zitatemontag
    #Zitate
    #Quotes
    #Quotations
    #Novels
    #Books
    #BannedBooks
    #Bookban
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  9. "La froide exactitude n’est pas l’art." (Cold exactitude is not art.) —Eugène Delacroix

    "L’exactitude n’est pas la vérité." (Exactitude is not truth.) —Henri Matisse

    miskatonic.org/2026/01/28/exac

    #Matisse #Delacroix #quotations

  10. “Tolstoy, who spoiled much of his work by argumentative moralizing, tells us in What Is Art? that ‘the business of art lies just in this: to make that understood and felt which in the form of an argument might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.’”

    — Bertram Brooker (1936)

    #BertramBrooker #Tolstoy #quotations

  11. 🟡 I Think, Therefore I Am, René Descartes, 1596–1650⁣

    #Awareness, #CogitoErgoSum, #Existence, #Philosophy, #Quotations, #Quotes, #RenéDescartes, #Science

    Vintage ◦ Classic ◦ Historical | Art ◦ Design ◦ Inspiration | Restored ◦ Enhanced ◦ Remixed⁣

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  12. 🟡 Polynomials Are Untrustworthy, Gertrude Mary Cox, 1900–1978⁣

    #Coefficients, #Equations, #GertrudeMaryCox, #Humor, #Indeterminates, #Mathematics, #Quotations, #Quotes, #Science, #Variables

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  13. 🟡 The Same River, Heraclitus c. 540–c. 480 B.C.E⁣

    #Business, #Entrepreneurship, #Existence, #Heraclitus, #Motivation, #Philosophy, #Quotations, #Quotes, #SelfHelp, #Thoughtfulness

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  14. CW: What depression is 🧶

    "It's like… my head is filled with something black and gooey, it takes up all the space, all the energy.
    I try to force myself to do things, to see people.
    But it exhausts me so much, it drains me out…
    And it's often painful, I can see that people are angry with me."
    ~ Mirion Malle, in "That's how I disappear"

    #depression #quotations #safety #selfCare #self #people #disappointing #relationship #relationships #friendship #mentalHealth #predictions #perceptions #beliefs #representations #probabilities #hallucinations #bias #psychology #SilentSunday #fragility #beliefs #hallucinations #bias #SilentSunday

  15. Have you ever encountered "Keep Your Eyes On the Stars, But Your Feet On the Ground" quoted and then attributed to Roosevelt? Head over to → quoteinvestigator.com/2018/12/, it has a wonderful list of references tracing the origins. #quotations #etymology #misquotes

  16. @paysmaths
    Nice one; but my favourite of his on the subject is, when asked "what is mathematics?" -
    "Mathematics is what
    mathematicians do."
    #Bertie #Russell
    #maths #quotations #helpful

  17. “I joined this fight like an idiot… And do you know why? I wanted the girl, sobbing with gratitude, to kiss her saviour on the hands, and her father to thank me on his knees. In reality her father fled with his attackers, and the girl, drenched in the bald man’s blood, threw up, became hysterical and fainted in fear…”

    Said the hero in "The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski

    #fantasy #Sapkowski #Witcher #TheWitcher #badAss #shortStories #quotation #quotations #book #bookStodon #activism #engagement #commitment #struggle

  18. "The alienation of the spectator in favour of the object contemplated is expressed as follows: The more he contemplates, the less he lives; the more he accepts to recognise himself in the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own existence and his own desire... This is why the spectator feels at home nowhere, because the spectacle is everywhere".

    Guy Debord, in his book "La société du spectacle", 1967

    #alienation #screen #technique #tech #technology #technocriticism #philosophy #phone #cell #quotations #sociology #mentalHealth #safety #capitalism #Debord #spectacle #entertainment #situationnism #book #cinema #films

  19. "No one is wilfully evil. It is enough for a man to know what is good for him necessarily to do it."
    For Socrates, the authentic practice of virtue presupposes knowing the essence of the Good.
    "Know thyself" is therefore an invitation that means "discover the good that is in you; listen to the divinity that speaks to your conscience".

    #moralBeauty #moralGround #highGround #idealism #utopia #vertue #justness #philosophy #philo #studies #Good #goodness #quotation #quotations #citation #Socrates