#principles

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

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Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held. ↗

— Matthew Scully

#morality #principles #reform #change

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#principles #witty #dating

Who then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? Should he descend into the all-consuming all-equalizing chaos, that ascetic-libertine state; or should he take his stand on the "Critical-Subjective," where empty bombast and a bourgeois strictness of morals contradicted each other? Ah, the principles and points of view constantly did that; it became so hard for Hans Castorp's civilian responsibility to distinguish between opposed positions, or even to keep the premises apart from each other and clear in his mind, that the temptation grew well-nigh irresistible to plunge head foremost into Naphtha's "morally chaotic All. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#human-nature #principles #equality

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail. ↗

— Robert Shea

#behave #certain #competition #design #especially

Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles! ↗

— Robert Bolt

#morals #principles #values #life

Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can’t sow lies and reap truth. ↗

— Katina Ferguson

#principles #life

The stops point out, with truth, the time of pause A sentence doth require at ev'ry clause. t ev'ry comma, stop while one you count; At semicolon, two is the amount; A colon doth require the time of three; The period four, as learned men agree. ↗

— Cecil Hartley

#men

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#principles #truth #love

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#any #believe #communal #democratic #firmly