Application Quote by Edward Forbes

“Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden…

— James Allen

“Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.”

— Thomas Paine

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to…

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

“At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each…

— Midge Decter

To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically.…

— Ludwig von Mises

The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things.

— Willy Ley

“An idea is a very powerful thing, and political ideas or religious ideas or economic ideas have always affected and often controlled the courses…

— J.C. Wylie

“it is impossible to begin investigation without assumptions, for they all are founded on ideas and canons which have their basis in the rational…

— Herman Bavinck

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most…

— Remy de Gourmont

“Your principles have life in them. For how can they perish, unless the ideas that correspond to them are extinguished? And it is up…

— Marcus Aurelius