“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
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.
