Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Should Have Quotes, Principles Quotes

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

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I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

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Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

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The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

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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?

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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

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The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

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Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.

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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

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The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.

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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.

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Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

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A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.

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