#rules

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic. ↗

— Peter Frederick Strawson

#exact #expression #give #language #logic

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#acting #bad #bad man #basic #because

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards. ↗

— Tacitus

#chance #cowards #fall #hands #often

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#desire #down #human #human nature #lay

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness. ↗

— Terence

#ask #better #love #love is #madness

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#being #does #good #good man #himself

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. ↗

— Quintilian

#natural #rules #technical #useless #without

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules. ↗

— Ben Harper

#away #burn #find #make #only

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system. ↗

— Max Hastings

#get #going #later #life #ones

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#principles #rules #sacred