Quotes on Exponents

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious pearls....It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.

Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.

There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.