Quotes of: Fundamental-principles Keyword

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Thomas Sowell

The principles of liberalism can have a real existence only in conjunction with a police system. Anarchism is an attempt to cleanse liberalism of the police. But just as pure oxygen is impossible to breathe, so liberalism without the police principle...

History of the Russian Revolution

It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetics were first made. The words "evolution" and "origin of species" are now so intimately associated with the name of Darwin that we are apt to forger th...

Mendel's Principles of Heredity

In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, b...

Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life

's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the law of attraction of the bodies of the solar system. The deviation from complete accuracy is due to the facts, that the planets are not of inap...

The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

The truth is that we were so spiritually and morally bankrupt that we could not even see some of those lines: we stepped over them blindly. Other times we saw the lines alright, but we to cross them. Alcohol gave us the false courage to do it and num...

Practice These Principles: Living the Spiritual Disciplines and Virtues in 12-Step Recovery to Achieve Spiritual Growth, Character Development, and Emotional Sobriety

When we work creatively and productively with others, our experience of meaning can be profound. When we work directly for the good of others, meaning deepens in ways that reward us beyond measure. Whenever we go beyond satisfying our own personal ne...

Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work

The search for meaning in our lives takes us on paths large and small. When we go beyond ourselves-whether in forgiveness, unselfishness, thoughtfulness, generosity and understanding toward others-we enter into the spiritual realm of meaning. By givi...

Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work

Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. "There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish." Cosca's face hardened as he leaned...

Red Country

Music escapes ideological characterization. Just as there are some social scientists who believe that what cannot be measured does not truly exist, and some psychologists used to believe that consciousness does not exist because it cannot be observed...

Theodore Dalrymple

Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.

Crime and Punishment

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

The Essential Thomas Paine

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

God Emperor of Dune

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

Gustave Courbet

If I spelled out the Principles of Faith I would be barking on the moon.

The Spice Box of Earth

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Writings And Speeches

If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.

Oscar Isaac

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Plato

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

Pat Metheny

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

Richard Dawkins