“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical,… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Under the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show, democratic law tends more and more to be grounded… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. (Do the right thing even if the heavens fall.) It's not nearly as naïve a maxim as it… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one… — William James Copy Share Image
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
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