I think that in mathematics, and maybe in life, you have to be willing to be a little bit lost.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
The mind's first duty is to keep the organism going.