Famous quotes containing the words trivial and/or algebra:
“Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens out the widest vistas. It ‘bakes no bread’, as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)