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“Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.”

Ideas Facts Reality Principles Agree Endless Abstract Frustration Concrete Penalties Inconsistency

Book:Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

Source: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

“The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society.”

“That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.”

Wells Pain Pleasure Moral Class Principles Seeing Members Tables Coffee Abstract Sheer Constructs Torment Ruling Theoretical Moral Principles

Book:The Acid House

Source: The Acid House

“Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to delete us and start over (Gen. 8:21; Zeph. 1:2). Therefore, the existence of cruel and arbitrary nature, together with the universality of human sin, prevents us from beginning the theological enterprise with any concept of God that is distinct from revelation. All theologies of a cosmic harmonic principle shipwreck on the truths of tragedy, catastrophe, and injustice.”

“Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.”

Ifs Thinking Men Should Government Law Enjoy Justice Principles Equal Agree Every Man Abstract Proportion Stable

Author:Aristotle

“Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.”

Truth Law Names Language Process Results Principles Abstract

Book:Pragmatism

Source: Pragmatism

“An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.”

Thinking Mind States Passion Energy Pleasure Principles Conditions Produce Dresses Train Abstract Thoughtful Civilized Savages Dominion Fondness Uncivilized Train Of Thought

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.”

Mean Hands Might Science Culture Secret Principles Technology Higher Organization Instruments Inspired Supreme Saving Abstract Latter Over It

Author:Johan Huizinga

“...at this stage in the advancement of women the best policy for them is not to talk much about the abstract principles of women'srights but to do good work in any job they get, better work if possible than their male colleagues.”

Ifs Jobs Principles Stage Policy Males Get Better Abstract Womens Rights Good Work Colleagues Advancement

Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.”

Ifs Mind Turns Principles Down And Philosopher Abstract Charm

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and its satellites-everywhere that the command economy operated, with its callous disregard for anything but narrow-focused abstract principle-could be forgiven for thinking that the Apocalypse was no longer imminent but in full cry. There's hardly a river, stream, or brook that isn't contaminated with the runoff from human misuse, whether industrial effluents, agricultural pesticides and herbicides, or worse.”

Source: Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

“There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.”

Principles Math Inevitable Abstract Harmonious

Author:Lydia Davis

“There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.”

Principles Preserves Abstract Strict Enforcement Coercion Free Society Prevention

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the practical work done in computing, both in software and in hardware design, is unsound and clumsy because the people who do it have not any clear understanding of the fundamental design principles of their work. Most of the abstract mathematical and theoretical work is sterile because it has no point of contact with real computing.”