"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry."
― Bertrand Russell
Topic(s): Poetry
― Bertrand Russell
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- "The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men."
- "Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
- "Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."
More In Poetry
- "There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write."― Henry R. Luce
- "I’m not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on ‘Paradise Lost’ to translate it."― Callan McAuliffe
- "I don’t look on poetry as closed works. I feel they’re going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."― John Ashbery