Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Bertrand Russell's Popular Quotes

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who contr…

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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

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At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to unders…

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Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

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In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

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Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

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