Famous quotes containing the words integral and/or formula:
“Self-centeredness is a natural outgrowth of one of the toddlers major concerns: What is me and what is mine...? This is why most toddlers are incapable of sharing ... to a toddler, whats his is what he can get his hands on.... When something is taken away from him, he feels as though a piece of himan integral pieceis being torn from him.”
—Lawrence Balter (20th century)
“Ideals possess the strange quality that if they were completely realized they would turn into nonsense. One could easily follow a commandment such as Thou shalt not kill to the point of dying of starvation; and I might establish the formula that for the proper functioning of the mesh of our ideals, as in the case of a strainer, the holes are just as important as the mesh.”
—Robert Musil (18801942)