真正的喜悦精神、崇高感、超越人类的感觉，这是最高卓越的试金石，在数学中肯定能找到，就像在诗歌中一样。

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.