Aristotle Quotes, Defining Quotes, Principles Quotes

[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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I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

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it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

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The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.

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Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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

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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

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The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

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Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

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The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

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The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

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When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

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

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In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

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So the principles of warfare are: Do not depend on the enemy not coming, but depend on our readiness against him. Do not depend on the enemy not attacking, but depend on our position that cannot be attacked.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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