Principle Quotes
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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
Richard Rogers
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I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.
David Steel
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
Erica Jong
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While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging to the Deity that is purely philosophical. The birth of the Saviour was as natural as are the births of our children; it was the result of natural action. He partook of flesh and blood - was begotten of his Father, as we were of our fathers.
Brigham Young
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I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.
Blaise Pascal
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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.
Charles F. Haanel
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Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.
Renata Adler
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It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
Epictetus
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
Plotinus
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I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
Rene Descartes
