#principle

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#excited #feelings #may #mind #nature

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cultures #descriptive #develop #different #different cultures

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. ↗

— Red Skelton

#cannot #care #forming #happiness #misery

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything. ↗

— John Sladek

#deal #does #due #edit #ever

There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'. ↗

— William Slim

#hard #him #hit #hurts #most

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#fundamental #fundamental principles #grand #may #mormonism

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#always #basic #basic principle #be strong #cannot

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies. ↗

— Matt Stone

#commit #decision #find #i #inconsistencies

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#derived #facts #obtained #only #principles

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief. ↗

— Terence

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