“The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
“people in general so often seem to get dumber in direct proportion to their academic training.”
“The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”
“There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.”
“(existential mathematics...) the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.” –p. 39”
“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”