Stendhal
Novelist
"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
Vagueness quotes
Vagueness
21 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Aleister Crowley
Occultist, Writer
"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."
William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race."
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, Mathematician
"None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error."
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