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| Mankind . . . are a mistake. The universe would be sweeter and fresher without them | | Uncategorized | |
| Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one | | Uncategorized | |
| Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. | | Uncategorized | |
| Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. | | Uncategorized | |
| Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. | | Marriage; Men and Women; Women | |
| Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true | | Mathematics | |
| Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true | | Mathematics | |
| Mathematics possesses not only truth, but also supreme beauty | | Mathematics | |
| Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. | | Mathematics | |
| Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture | | Mathematics | |
| Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture | | Mathematics | |
| Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective | | Disease | |
| Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. | | Men; Tolerance | |
| Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death | | Uncategorized | |
| Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. | | Fear; Men; Thought | |
| Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think that he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. | | Love; Men; Power | |
| Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact | | Uncategorized | |
| Men, quite ordinary men, will compel children to look on while their mothers are raped. In pursuit of political aims men will submit their opponents to long years of unspeakable anguish | | Uncategorized | |
| Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery | | Competence; Philosophy | |
| More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given | | Teachers and teaching | |