Quotes About Principle

they also abjured what they saw as the manipulation and duplicity of the political newspapers, which, they claimed, sacrificed "every principle of freedom" for the short-term gain of whichever party they happened to favor.

The cause of sin; it is because his fear is not in us. It is for want of a good principle in us, particularly for want of the fear of God; this is at the bottom of our apostasy from him; men forsake their duty to God because they stand in no awe of him nor have any dread of his displeasure

is better to incur the world's hatred, by testifying against its wickedness, than gain its good-will by going down the stream with it.

Who was it who said that irony is the fundamental operating principle of the universe?" "I believe," I said, "that it was Henghis Hapthorn.

The ends must justify the means.

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

She saw that he couldn't live in a way other than the one he thought was right, and when he saw what the right thing was, like now, he cared about it as if it were the only thing that mattered.

I have not been deaf to truth" and "I have not winked at injustice.

If Nature is not an object of thought, that is, a simple correlate of a thought, it is decidedly not a subject either, and for the same reason: its opacity, its enveloping. It is an obscure principle.

The search for the conditions of possibility is in principle posterior to an actual experience, and from this it follows that even if subsequently one determines rigorously the sine qua non of that experience, it can never be washed of the original stain of having been discovered post festum nor ever become what positively founds that experience.

The flesh is not matter, is not mind, is not sunstance. To designate it, we should need the old term "element," in the sense of a general thing, midway between the spatio-temporal individual and the idea, a sort of incarnate principle that brings a style of being wherever there is a fragment of being. The flesh is in this sense an "element" of Being.

The body schema is a power to vary a certain principle without explicit knowledge of this principle...This playing with a principle that's not possessed is consciousness itself. Consciousness is, if you like, synonymous with imperception. Consciousness of a figure is consciousness without knowledge of a background.

It is a question of finding in the present, the flesh of the world an 'ever new' and 'always the same'--A sort of time of sleep. The sensible, Nature, transcend the past present distinction, realize from within a passage from one into the other. Existential eternity. The indestructible, the barbaric Principle. Do a psychoanalysys of Nature: it is the flesh, the mother. A philosophy of the flesh is the condition without which psychoanalysis remains anthropology.

In principle, the logician is only familiar with thetic consciousness.

The Substitution Principle tells us that wherever a value of one type is expected, one may provide a value of any subtype of that type:

The Nonconformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Arguments for war based on the principle of 'setting the world an example' are always dangerous. They can be used to justify quite disproportionate responses, as occurred in South-east Asia in the 1960s and 1970s. They tend to be selective: why for instance did Britain not use force in 1965 to uphold the concept of majority self-determination in Rhodesia?

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief.

St. Paul's "He who will not work shall not eat" holds

Terror is nothing other than prompt, stern, inflexible justice; terror thus issues from virtue; it is less a particular maxim than a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to the most pressing needs of the fatherland.

It doesn't matter who's right but what's right.

Life is larger than any principle. Morality is an idea, but life is what we live. How can we fit it into this idea without damaging it? More lives have been ruined in attempts to prevent sin than because of sin itself.

Life is larger than any principle. Morality is an idea, but life is what we live. How can we fit it into this idea without damaging it? More lives have been ruined in attempts to prevent sin than because of sin itself." "Should we live in sin then?" "No. But prohibiting it doesn't help at all. It creates hypocrisy and spiritual cripples." "So what should we do?" "I don't know.