1,227 Quotes About Principles

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.

Once you become aware of your own body and its movements, you will be surprised that you are not your body. This is something of a basic principle, that if you can watch something then you are not it. You are the watcher, not the watched. You are the observer, not the observed. How can you be both?

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.