[Paracompact]

The quote about ineffable/divine/mystical is indeed the one I was implicitly referring to. No worries, I should've been more clear.

Most math people I know don't have a religious conviction in Platonism or anything, but their zeal for math since early childhood often does boil down to awe in something larger, more primordial, more significant than the mundane business of humanity. This tends especially to be the case for pure math people.