Bertrand Russell Quote

Literature embodies what is general in particular circumstances whose universal significance shines through their individual dress; but mathematics endeavors to present whatever is most general in its purity, without any irrelevant trappings.


Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays, Chapter IV (p. 61), Longmans, Green & Co. 1919


Literature embodies what is general in particular circumstances whose universal significance shines through their individual dress; but mathematics...

Literature embodies what is general in particular circumstances whose universal significance shines through their individual dress; but mathematics...

Literature embodies what is general in particular circumstances whose universal significance shines through their individual dress; but mathematics...

Literature embodies what is general in particular circumstances whose universal significance shines through their individual dress; but mathematics...