Quotes on Rigor Mortis

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.