Quotes by Principles The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts. Arthur Schopenhauer principlesagreementdoe The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives. Arthur Schopenhauer causesprinciplesroots It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle Ashley Montagu principlesintegritymen ... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love. Ashley Montagu guidesdevelopmentprinciples Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach. Athenaeus investigationnatureprinciples My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car. Aubrey de Grey carprinciplessimple The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. Auguste Rodin methodologyprinciplesart Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them. Augustus Hare principlesmenthinking Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion. Austin Phelps ethicsprinciplesreligious Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped. Avicenna denyprinciplesfirsts The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy. Avro Manhattan principlespracticefirsts There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government’s unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States. Ayn Rand governmentprinciplesrights The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. Ayn Rand majority-rulelibertyprinciples My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational — not relating their one action or one conviction to another. Ayn Rand patternsprinciplesmistake Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence. Ayn Rand independenceprinciplesmen What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion. Ayn Rand essentialslibertyprinciples There can be no compromise on moral principles. Ayn Rand moralcompromiseprinciples It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person. Ayn Rand moralprinciplescharacter Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men. Ayn Rand principlesrightsmen If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life. Ayrton Senna principlesdreamreality«678910111213141516»
