The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.
Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles.
But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.
There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.
If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.
Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's. . . it's got some gigantic missing pieces.
The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
. . . as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.
At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.
Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.