Bertrand Russell Delight Quotations

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].

A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.