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What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbe...more

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

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Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to kn...more

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The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in math...more

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To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

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If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent m...more