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The Importance of Philosophy in My Life

At home, the atmosphere was one of puretant piety and austerity. I had to do half an hour's practice at the piano before family prayers. My grandmother would never sit in an armed chair until after dinner. It's almost gone out that sort of austere living by well-to-do people,. which in those days was fairly common. You started with mathematics, didn't you? And then moved to philosophy? I did three years of mathematics and one year’s philosophy. But you came with me. I had done only mathematics before going to Cambridge.

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