Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason; truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.
Original text (German)
Original text (German)
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Of freedom and of life he only is deserving
Who every day must conquer them anew.
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