
“The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.”
Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 39
The Man who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
“The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.”
Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 39
Message to Chairman Khrushchev Concerning the Meaning of Events in Cuba (18 April 1961).
1961
Crossing the Rubicon
Focus Fourteen
“A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.”
Source: Good To Great And The Social Sectors, 2005, p. 1
Source: The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts, 1914, p. 67
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Harmony of Determinism and Freedom, p.325
“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
Source: What is Man? (1938), p. 180
Context: When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick. He overreaches himself, the work denies itself to him, the incarnation of the spirit no longer takes place, and to avoid the threat of senselessness he snatches after empty power. This sickness casts the genius on to the same level as those hysterical figures who, being by nature without power, slave for power, in order that they may enjoy the illusion that they are inwardly powerful, and who in this striving for power cannot let a pause intervene, since a pause would bring with it the possibility of self-reflection and self-reflection would bring collapse.