1. Popular passages
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Page 174 - Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The
entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suf
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Page xii - It seems that mathematical ideas are arranged somehow in strata, the ideas in each
stratum being linked by a complex of relations both among themselves and with those above
and below. The lower the stratum, the deeper (and in general the more difficult) the idea.
Thus the idea of an "irrational" is deeper than that of an integer; and Pythagoras's theorem is,
for that reason, deeper tha
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Page 460 - immortality,' cover no distinctive sense-content whatever, it follows that
theoretically speaking they are words devoid of any significance. Yet strangely enough they
have a definite meaning for our practice. We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were
free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be
immortal; and we find then that these words do make
Appears in 27 books from 1902-2007