Richard Price (1721–1791) Welsh nonconformist preacher and radical
Source: A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1789), p. 34
Richard Price (1721–1791) Welsh nonconformist preacher and radical
Source: A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1789), p. 34
Richard Price (1721–1791) Welsh nonconformist preacher and radical
Source: A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1789), p. 10
Frithjof Schuon book The Transfiguration of Man
Subjectively speaking, the essence of philosophy is certitude; for the moderns, on the contrary, the essence of philosophy is doubt: the philosopher is supposed to reason without any premise (voraussetzungsloses Denken), as if this condition were not itself a preconceived idea; this is the classical contradiction of all relativism. Everything is doubted except for doubt. The solution to the problem of knowledge − if there is a problem − could not possibly be this intellectual suicide that is the promotion of doubt; on the contrary, it lies in having recourse to a source of certitude that transcends the mental mechanism, and this source − the only one there is − is the pure Intellect, or Intelligence as such.
[2005, The Transfiguration of Man, World Wisdom, 3, 978-0-94153219-8]
Miscellaneous, Philosophy
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
That the evidences of those private debts, called bank notes, become active capital, and aliment the whole commerce, manufactures, and agriculture of the United States. Here are a set of people, for instance, who have bestowed on us the great blessing of running in our debt about two hundred millions of dollars, without our knowing who they are, where they are, or what property they have to pay this debt when called on; nay, who have made us so sensible of the blessings of letting them run in our debt, that we have exempted them by law from the repayment of these debts beyond a give proportion (generally estimated at one-third). And to fill up the measure of blessing, instead of paying, they receive an interest on what they owe from those to whom they owe; for all the notes, or evidences of what they owe, which we see in circulation, have been lent to somebody on an interest which is levied again on us through the medium of commerce. And they are so ready still to deal out their liberalities to us, that they are now willing to let themselves run in our debt ninety millions more, on our paying them the same premium of six or eight per cent interest, and on the same legal exemption from the repayment of more than thirty millions of the debt, when it shall be called for.
ME 13:420
1810s, Letters to John Wayles Eppes (1813)
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) Labor union leader
Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally, West Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 280
1950s, Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally (1959)
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
(zh-CN) 我们应当相信群众,我们应当相信党,这是两条根本的原理。如果怀疑这两条原理,那就什么事情也做不成了。
On the Question of Agricultural Co-Operation (July 31, 1955)
1950s
“The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.”
Pema Chödron (1936) American philosopher
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Attacking the defense of slavery, Session of National Constituent Assembly 13 May, 1791
Misc Quotes
Marcelo H. del Pilar (1850–1896) Filipino writer, lawyer, and journalist (1850-1896)
Marcelo H. del Pilar to José Rizal (20 July 1892)
Eliphas Levi (1810–1875) French writer
Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Source: [Lévi, Éliphas, Blavatsky, H. P., Paradoxes of the Highest Science, 2007, Wildside Press LLC, 9781434401069, 15, https://books.google.com/books?id=oIglEl6BJFoC&q=The%20Paradoxes%20of%20the%20Highest%20Science&pg=PA5]
Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo (1954) Catholic bishop
Brazil’s top bishop: Without solidarity, Brazil could become new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/05/18/brazils-top-bishop-without-solidarity-brazil-could-become-new-epicenter (May 18, 2020)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician
Letter to W. H. Smith (5 February 1889), quoted in Michael Bentley, Lord Salisbury's World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain (2001), p. 65
1880s
Leonard E. Read (1898–1983) American academic
Source: Leonard Read Journals, July 1, 1949 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1949/leonard-e-read-journal-july-1949/
Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981) Croatian writer
Aristocrats of Spirit, in: Eseji IV, p.76 (Zora, 1963)
Essays
“Islam is a civilisation incompatible with the principles of France.”
Éric Zemmour (1958) French essayist
Eric Zemmour: Meet the right-wing TV pundit set to shake up France's presidential race. https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/13/eric-zemmour-meet-the-right-wing-tv-pundit-set-to-shake-up-france-s-presidential-race Antoine Diers, a spokesman for the Association of Eric Zemmour's Friends.
Yingluck Shinawatra (1967) Thai businesswoman and politician
"Speech On The Occasion Of The End Of Ramadan H. 1432" https://www.thaiembassy.sg/announcements/speech-by-prime-minister-yingluck-shinawatra-on-the-occasion-of-the-end-of-ramadan-h-1 (2011)
Pierre Emmanuel Félix Chazal (1808–1892) Belgian politician (1808-1892)
Source: All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 5. A prospectus by the military Chazal and Brialmont, The Importance of General Chazal in Colonial Politics. http://www.ethesis.net/leopold_II/leopold_II.htm#2.%20 KMLKG, Papiers Chazal, 65/1, Chazal aan de hertog van Brabant, 28 juni 1859.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (1963) Mongolian politician
Source: "Mongolian president signals intention to help resolve N.K. nuclear standoff" in Yonhap News Agency https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20160716002400315 (16 July 2016)
Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) Filipino politician
Source: As quoted in “Don Pañong – Genius" by A.V.H. Hartendorp in Philippine Magazine (September 1929), p. 211.
Leopold II of Belgium (1835–1909) King of the Belgians
Source: All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 5. A prospectus by the military Chazal and Brialmont, The Importance of General Chazal in Colonial Politics. http://www.ethesis.net/leopold_II/leopold_II.htm#2.%20 KMLKG, Papiers Chazal, 65/1, Chazal aan de hertog van Brabant, 28 juni 1859.
Shashi Tharoor (1956) Indian politician, diplomat, author
Source: "Secularism as principle and practice in India is in ‘danger’: Shashi Tharoor" https://indianexpress.com/article/india/shashi-tharoor-new-book-securalism-religion-6912107/, The Indian Express, November 1, 2020.
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter II Planning a Model World
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter II Planning a Model World
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter II Planning a Model World
James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
A paraphrased variant of this seems to have arisen on the internet around 2007: It is ... a settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute. The United States, while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none. <br class="br">1810s <br class="br">Source: Message delivered to Dey Omar Agha, by Isaac Chauncey and William Shaler , summarizing the Treaty with Algiers (1815) http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/bar1815t.asp, and U.S attitudes and actions in the Barbary Wars, in refusing to pay ransom or tribute to pirates of the Barbary States, as quoted in History and Present Condition of Tripoli: With Some Accounts of the Other Barbary States http://books.google.com/books?id=YMwRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46 (1835) by Robert Greenhow, p. 46
“My principles which I always follow are that no authority, no power is worth a drop of blood.”
Viktor Yanukovych (1950) Ukrainian politician who was the President of Ukraine
Source: "Yanukovych: 'I Was Wrong' To Ask Russian Troops Into Crimea" in NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/04/02/298385578/yanukovych-i-was-wrong-to-ask-russian-troops-into-crimea (2 April 2014)
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister <br class="br">Source: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1919/jul/03/territorial-adjustments#column_1215 in the House of Commons on the Treaty of Versailles (3 July 1919)
“We urge the US to stick to the 'one China' principle and the three joint communiques.”
Zhu Fenglian (1977)
Source: "Biden administration invites Taiwan to its 'Summit for Democracy,' infuriating Beijing" in CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/23/asia/biden-taiwan-summit-for-democracy-intl-hnk/index.html (24 November 2021)
“Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Misattributed
Aristotle book Metaphysics
Book IV, 1005
Metaphysics
Original: (el) τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ ἅμα ὑπάρχειν τε καὶ μὴ ὑπάρχειν ἀδύνατον τῷ αὐτῷ καὶ κατὰ τὸ αὐτό (καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα προσδιορισαίμεθ᾽ ἄν, ἔστω προσδιωρισμένα πρὸς τὰς λογικὰς δυσχερείας): αὕτη δὴ πασῶν ἐστὶ βεβαιοτάτη τῶν ἀρχῶν: ἔχει γὰρ τὸν εἰρημένον διορισμόν. ἀδύνατον γὰρ ὁντινοῦν ταὐτὸν ὑπολαμβάνειν εἶναι καὶ μὴ εἶναι, καθάπερ τινὲς οἴονται λέγειν Ἡράκλειτον.
Source: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0051%3Abook%3D4%3Asection%3D1005b
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Speech in Shrewsbury (9 May 1843), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume I, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), p. 51
Lajos Kossuth (1802–1894) Hungarian politician
Source: In front of Ohio's legislators on 7 february, 1852.
John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author
Source: “A Different Kind of Teacher: Nobody can educate you except yourself,” C-SPAN (January 5, 2001) https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4653000/educate-yourself
Heinz R. Pagels (1939–1988) American physicist
Source: The Cosmic Code (1982), p. 312-313
Gilbert Murray (1866–1957) Anglo-Australian scholar
1920s, The Ordeal of This Generation: The War, the League and the Future (1929)
Source: "The Felt Need. The Three Principles of the Covenant: Conference, Law, Sanctions", pp. 88-89
Otis Hamilton Lee (1902–1948) American philosopher
Source: [10.1086/286600, Philosophy and Science, Philosophy of Science, 7, 7–17, 1940, Lee, Otis]
Kyūichi Tokuda (1894–1953) Japanese politician
New Situation and the Policy of the Communist Party of Japan (1950)
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
U. Eco (1990), The limits of Intepretation, as quoted in Thomas A. Sebeok, Jean Umiker-Sebeok (2020), The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics https://books.google.it/books?id=NUK0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
1800s, First Inaugural Address (1801)
Ottobah Cugoano (1757–1791) African abolitionist in England
Source: Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), p. 24
Sergey Lavrov (1950) Russian politician and Foreign Minister
As quoted in Meet the New, Resource-Based Global Reserve Currency https://www.unz.com/pescobar/meet-the-new-resource-based-global-reserve-currency/, 31 March 2022
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Bk I, Ch II
The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer
Source: Short fiction, Home is the Hangman (1975), p. 138
Leonid Kuchma (1938) Second president of Ukraine
Speech at the 52nd session of the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts) (1997)
“Exuberance to me early meant ecstacy of love, the poetic principle of life.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
A Testament (1957)
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Oggigiorno esistono persone fortunate ad avere genitori con sani princìpi. Sono molto grato ai miei per avermi insegnato l'educazione, l'onestà e la loro grande cultura.
Source: prevale.net