Quantitative aspects have no value at all, because value is, essentially, attached to quality.

671. No method of approach declares the insignificance of quality; but there are many of them that emphatically state that quantity is which really counts and which is determinant.

 

672. The quantitative approach will emerge and gain importance as soon as the capability for considering the essence of things declines and ceases in man.

 

673. Quantitative aspects have no value at all, because value is, essentially, attached to quality.

 

674. The potentia passiva pura is neither quantity, nor quality - but actuality that transfers to the pure passive potentiality by the abandonment of its actuality in quality.

 

676. Quantity is by the side of chaos.

 

677. In the cosmos - right because it is cosmos - quantity cannot gain full control.

 

678. (René Guénon) If there were absolutely no qualitative difference between two beings, there would be no quantitative difference between them either, i.e. the two beings would be one.

 

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Metaphysical aphorisms by András László

 

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