The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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