Quotes of: Moral-principles Keyword

The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.

Getting Well

Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.

In the Body of the World

Wisdom is the principal thing. The principle to discover the principal thing is "the fear of the Lord". Fear God and be wise.

Creeds for Aspiring Achievers

Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.

Lysander Spooner

All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as...

Max Weber

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

Hans Hofmann

Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.

Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Intellectual Autobiography: Ideas on Literature, Philosophy and Religion

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

Reconstruction in Philosophy

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Revolution

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

Suite Française

A principle to remember is that saying yes to His directive will always result in advancing the gospel message and a resulting blessing on those to whom God directs it.

The Sifted Generation

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

Meditations

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Molecular Biology of the Gene

Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate.

Looking for Alaska

When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues

Space, Time & Medicine

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them

Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

Sputnik Sweetheart

The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.

Oliver Twist