Knowledge, Reason & Mind

Essay Category: 4.2 | Last updated: 2026-06-04

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All ideas having large consequences are always simple. -2024
The empires of the future will be the empires of the mind. -2024
Thought finds a world and creates one also. -2025
Thinking is like a game, it does not begin unless there is an opposite team. -2023
Mathematics is the music of reason. -2023
The real is rational and the rational is real. -2021
The past is a permanent dimension of human consciousness and values. -2018
A good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. -2018
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the lifeblood of civilisation. -1995

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