"At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as da…"

"At the age of eighteen ... I read Mill's Autobiography, where I found a sentence to the effect that his father taught…"

"I remember the precise moment, one day in 1894, as I was walking along Trinity Lane, when I saw in a flash (or though…"

"I once devised a test question which I put to many people to discover whether they were pessimists. The question was:…"

"Keynes's intellect was the sharpest and clearest that I have ever known. When I argued with him, I felt that I took m…"

"I remember a cold, bright day in early spring [1895] when I walked by myself in the Tiergarten, and made projects of …"

"Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradual…"

"Suddenly the ground seemed to give way beneath me, and I found myself in quite another region. Within five minutes I …"

"At the end of those five minutes, I had become a completely different person. For a time, a sort of mystic illuminati…"

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowled…"