“Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.”
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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.