Principles Quotes - Page 76

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration. These were the friends who gave me my life.

The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come here and act like I'm an American. I want to showcase the dynamic potential Korea has, and I want to prove that as an artist.

We have to be in a listening mode: it is about dialogue, about listening to what the others have to say, about cooperating in the best way possible. These are the values and principles that we put forward.

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

Burton did not believe in miracles . Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts .

The market is like the police: of course you need it, but if it becomes the central organizing principle of your culture then you're in deep trouble.

We have in Tennessee a number of wonderful faith-based clinics to serve the uninsured. It is an important principle with them that everyone pays something as they are able.

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

The body is some kind of image of you, it's kind of something that's just attached to your soul, some kind of outside principle, which doesn't really represent who you really are.

This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the universal intellect and the material world.

People often talk about Plotinus' system. The reason they do this is that Plotinus postulated a kind of series or chain of principles, so at the top there's what he called the One. Below the One is what he called Intellect. Below Intellect is Soul, and the effect of the soul is the physical world that we actually live in.

Who you really are, is an immaterial soul and the body is an external thing that's sort of an encrustation your soul. So this has important implications for Plotinus' ethics, because his ethics are basically all about encouraging us to turn away from the body and turn towards these higher principles, so universal soul, universal intellect and ultimately the One.

The soul is the principle of life, and it's also something much closer to our own awareness and consciousness of our existence because fundamentally for Plotinus what we are is souls, we're not intellects.

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

I think, [ "You're All That"] it's based around the biblical principles and truths that transformed me.

I stand on principle where many people stand on money.