Quotes by Principles As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom. Anthony Kennedy constitutiongenerationsprinciples There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles. Anthony Kennedy debateprinciplesfirsts Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. Antoine de Saint-Exupery atheismprinciplesidentity The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation between the principles of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis. Antoine Lavoisier equalityprinciplesart If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the principle does not exist; that it is a hypothetical body, a gratuitous supposition; indeed, it is in the principles of good logic, not to multiply bodies without necessity. Antoine Lavoisier bodyprinciplesscience There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one. Antoine Rivarol flirtingdutyprinciples Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions. Antoinette Brown Blackwell lightprinciplesbelief In Lebanon, there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat. In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him. Ariel Sharon principlesevilsorry The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things. Aristotle principlesmathfirsts The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature. Aristotle gymnasticsprinciplespeople [this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it Aristotle principlessouldesire There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle. Aristotle elementsprinciplessoul The first principle of all action is leisure. Aristotle leisureprinciplesfirsts No science ever defends its first principles. Aristotle principlesfirsts In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature. Aristotle differentprinciplessoul The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation. Aristotle principlessoultwo Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles. Aristotle unityprinciplesorder For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements. Aristotle analysisprinciplesthinking It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge? Aristotle words-of-wisdomcausesprinciples Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind. Aristotle malesfemaleprinciples«4567891011121314»
