Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.