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Quotes from Mathematical man — Robert Musil

1880–1942 Austria

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Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.

Mathematical man (1913)

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson … of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

Mathematical man (1913)

With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. … As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.

Mathematical man (1913)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Musil (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.