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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Quotes

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 in poetry.

Source:Essay IV. The Study of Mathematics
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Bertrand Russell (Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Quotes)
  • Book: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
  • Writer: Bertrand Russell
  • Genre: Philosophy, Essays
  • Published: 1918
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