Strictly Decreasing

Famous quotes containing the words strictly and/or decreasing:

    “The human imagination ... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.”
    —John Berger (b. 1926)

    “As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress of the character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)