“Let thy mind rule thy tongue!”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“Base thy life on principle, not on rules.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 199
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Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint
Encyclical Fides et Ratio, 14 September 1998 <br class="br">Source: www.vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_14091998_fides-et-ratio_en.html
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 309–310 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
“Are your values based upon principles?”
Stephen R. Covey book The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
Source: The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004), p. 49
Context: Values are social norms — they're personal, emotional, subjective, and arguable. All of us have values. Even criminals have values. The question you must ask yourself is, Are your values based upon principles? In the last analysis, principles are natural laws — they're impersonal, factual, objective and self-evident. Consequences are governed by principles and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!
“Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention (August 23, 1956). Source: Eisenhower Presidential Library. Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20210125121539/https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes from the original https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes on Janunary 25, 2021. <br class="br">1950s
“The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act So As To Elicit the Best In Others and Thereby In Thy Self.”
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Book III, Ch. 7, Title of the chapter. This has sometimes appeared in modernized or paraphrased forms:
Always act so as to elicit the best in others, and thereby oneself.
Always act so as to elicit the best in others, and thereby one's Self.
Always act so as to elicit the best in others, and thereby in yourself.
Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.
Founding Address (1876), An Ethical Philosopy of Life (1918)
“The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis