Leopoldo Alas Professions : Novelist Born : April 25, 1852 Died : June 13, 1901 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Leopoldo Alas He who would prove all life, leaves it empty. To know the way of everything is to be left with the geometry of things and with the substance of nothing. To reduce the world to an equation is to leave it without head or feet. Leopoldo Alas substance feet life Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors