Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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The science of pure mathematics ... may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
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By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race.
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The history of Western philosophy is, after all, no more than a series of footnotes to Plato's philosophy.
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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
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