G. H. Hardy Quotes

I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.

I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

I don't like sympathetic characters.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.

I'm very rational. I tend to let my head rule my heart.

If I see a baby, I don't feel anything. It's like Theresa May walking past a homeless person.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

Faith is not the opposite of reason.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. ... We don't "believe" in reason.

There is nothing higher than reason.

This then is the age of reason.

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.