“It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.” ShouldHumansMayImportantReasonIndividualForceDifficultGrowthPrinciplesDependsCivilizationProveEssentialsTasksLimitationBowsPreservationHuman Reason Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles which hold for the clothes of the past must hold for clothes of the present and the future.” SeemsPastDifficultPrinciplesFashionClothesDrawsContemporaryConclusionErasRetrospect Author:James Laver
“Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is formed slowly, but it preserves every principle which it has once acquired; it grows and strengthens itself incessantly in the midst of the many variations and errors of the human mind. It's chief attribute is clearness; it has no marks to express confused notations. It brings together phenomena the most diverse, and discovers the hidden analogies which unite them.” MindHumansTogetherForceGrowsDifficultSpacePrinciplesMarkRelationErrorsChiefsMathematicalPreservesAnalysisConfusedMidstHuman MindAttributesDiverseTemperatureVariationAnalogiesIncessantlyClearnessMathematical Analysis Book:The Analytical Theory of Heat Source: The Analytical Theory of Heat
“Sometimes we forge our own principles and sometimes we accept others' principles, or holistic packages of principles, such as religion and legal systems. While it isn't necessarily a bad thing to use others' principles - it's difficult to come up with your own, and often much wisdom has gone into those already created - adopting pre-packaged principles without much thought exposes you to the risk of inconsistency with your true values.” LifeSometimesUseValuesDifficultGrowthAcceptingPrinciplesGoneRiskPersonal GrowthInvestingCome UpBad ThingsPackagesHolisticAdoptingInconsistencyLegal SystemTrue Value Author:Ray Dalio
“There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At the same time, we have to also have a balance between realpolitik and Wilsonian principles of freedom and democracy and human rights. And maintaining that balance is the greatest challenge that we in the West, including the Federal Republic of Germany, have to face because it's many times a very difficult decision-making process.” HumansFacesNationsProcessDifficultChallengesDecisionPrinciplesDemocracyRightsSecurityBalanceElementsWestIncludingAffairHuman RightsGermanyDecision MakingRepublicNational SecurityMaintainingDifficult DecisionsDecision Making ProcessDemocracy And Human RightsRealpolitik Author:John McCain
“You do have to keep in mind as you're going through extraordinarily difficult circumstances, that if you stay true, true to your values, if you stay true to your principles, if you believe in these values, then you can work in that context to right policies that may not be working.” IfsMindBelieveMayValuesDifficultPrinciplesPolicyCircumstancesIf You BelieveStay TrueDifficult Circumstances Author:Condoleezza Rice
“It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.” MenDifficultReligiousMoralPrinciplesMoralityRegardMoral Principles Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of pleasure. Some pleasure is difficult. It should be for the reader as well as the writer. But it has to be pleasure.” ShouldWellsKindDifficultPleasurePrinciplesReader Author:Martin Amis