Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this... →
Michael Polanyi
Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.
Yitzhak Rabin
A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better.... →
David Remnick
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
Richard Rogers
Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.
Murray Rothbard
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl Sandburg
I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.
Justin Sane
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical... →
Ferdinand de Saussure