Quotes About Principle

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

When your life is possession-centered, the important thing is what you have; when it is principle-centered, the important thing is who and what you are.

I have to adhere to the truth," I said.

More Phase Transitions This principle applies just as much to the spread of infectious diseases or magnetic polarity as to forest fires. It is essentially the same process unfolding.

Art has the provinces in its blood. Art is provincial in principle, preserving for itself a naive, external, astonished and envious outlook.

The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

It's not about what makes you feel better or worse. If it's the right thing to do and you know it, you should do it.

The older I get," observed Mr. van Koppen, "the more I realize that everything depends upon what a man postulates. The rest is plain sailing.

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

That which the external world perceives as quite motionless has the appearance of being quite at rest. However much it may change, in relation to the external world it always stays at rest. This principle governs all self-modifications. That is why the beautiful appears so much at rest. Everything beautiful is a self-illuminated, perfect individual.

Pentru poet, obiectivitatea este totul, pentru filoyof, subiectivitatea. Poertul este glasul universului, filoyoful este glasul Unului elementar, al principiului.

?nsan hayat?nda bir ki?iye olsun yalan söylememeli. De?il mi efendim?

It lies at the foundations of everything, it is the fifth element, the quintessence.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Necessity has no law.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought—not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Hearing this, Master Eno scolded Shisei, "To calm the mind and contemplate is a Zen disease and not Zen. To what avail is it in principle to sit for a long time and suffer physical pain?

SAMADHI AND ATTACHMENT There is a question which must be taken into consideration now. That is, whether living unconsciously in "no-self" from morning to night is in accord with the principle of Zen or not.

To be wholly given up to love affairs or money-making is 'chasing after things,' or attachment, which means having yourself pulled and spun about by something external to you. This can never be called true samadhi. What may be called samadhi must be invested with the Heavenly Principle as the master.

Running after things is called attachment; following the Heavenly Principle is samadhi.