Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Law Quotes, Principles Quotes

Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.

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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

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

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Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

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[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

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The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

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The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .

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Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.

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The Tao principle is what happens of itself.

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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

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We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

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It is contrary to our principles to multiply organizations, since, in all conscience, there are enough of them. And when organizations are created they need individuals to look after them.

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The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

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