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The meaning of the world is the separation of wish and fact. Wish is a force as applied to thinking beings, to realize something. A fulfilled wish is a union of wish and fact. The meaning of the whole world is the separation and the union of fact and wish.

— Kurt Gödel

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Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine.

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