Date of birth: 1861-02-15
Date of death: 1947-12-30
Quotes number: 57
Nationality: English
Profession: Mathematician
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
Common sense is genius in homespun.
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
