Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

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Bertrand Russell was a 19th-century English philosopher and logician. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He influenced mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic philosophy. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Art — Creativity, expression, and the role of art in society
  • Beauty — Appreciating aesthetics, grace, and the sublime

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