“This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.” KnowsRealRealitySeemsPastRealizingEventsIdentityFunctionAriseDependentRemarkableParadoxPrincipalFuture Events Book:All the King's Men Source: All the King's Men
“If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.” IfsShouldImportantRealitySchoolCertainGivenIssuesDisciplineCreatingOrganizationFunctionImportant ThingsPrincipalGiven UpSchool Principal Author:Itay Talgam
“Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.” ShouldFirstsBelieveTwoCharacterGovernmentIndividualBeliefNationsDoubtCenturyCapacityThirdsFunctionFinalsBe GoodLiberalismDeclinePrincipalRestraintPreservationRemovalAscent Author:George Will
“I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.” IdeasSchoolFormIndividualEducationFunctionExcellenceUrgesPrincipalNurturingYeast Author:Jerome Bruner
“In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.” ThinkingKnowsYearsHumansIdeasReasonBrainDemandFunctionSuspectsPrincipalDoing YouLeading MeRationalizeLizardsHuman Reason Author:Dave Hickey
“The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put God’s law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world….The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.” WorldStatesLawCertainPracticeFunctionInstrumentsIslamIdeologyIslamicEstablishmentPrincipalDominantEmployedExpandingJihadIslamic State Author:Majid Khadduri
“The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.” MindIdeasHelpingFormUnderstandingGrowthPiecesFateDevelopmentOrganizationFunctionPrincipalListeners Author:Arnold Schoenberg
“The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.” BehindsEvidenceTasksFunctionDisappearServantPilotsPrincipalConductor Author:Franz Liszt
“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.” ShouldFormSufferingEnemyFunctionPunishmentNew WorldPrincipalSymbolicBrave New WorldHuxleyBrave New World HappinessBrave New World FreedomBrave New World CharacterBrave New World TechnologyBrave New World ConsumerismBrave New World John Book:Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books Source: Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books
“The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it's principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and the gaoler - to whom must be invariably added the trader in lies, be he priest of schoolmaster, remunerated or protected by the government to enslave minds and make them docilely accept the yoke.” MindMayGovernmentLyingAcceptingTaxesMassFunctionPoliceInstrumentsSoldierAll TimeAgentsTitlesCharacteristicsPriestsProtectedPrincipalIndispensableOrganisationCollectorsOppressorsYokeTraders Author:Errico Malatesta