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The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is imp...more

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die...more

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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a...more

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Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but ever possible wor...more

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In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics...more

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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any par...more

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The world of being is unchangeable, rigid, exact, delightful to the mathematician, the logician, the builder of metaphysical systems, and all who love...more