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“Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.”

Law Principles Taught Color Easier Drawing Fixed Colour

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings ( épures ), plans ( schémas ), etc. One only right solution imposes itself:;: namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles.”

Form Memories Principles Plans Military Figures Circumstances Solutions Solve Absence Drawing Fixed Etc Application Inability Similarity

Book:The Principles of War

Source: The Principles of War

“There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once and for all. ... Probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez faire.”

Hard Done Certain Causes Principles Harm Fixed Liberalism Creeds Thumbs Insistence Laissez Faire Basic Principles Stationary

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.”

Men Doe Self Courses Principles He Man Complexes Simplicity Fixed Complexity Self Control

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.”

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Author:Raymond Geuss

“No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.”

Men Giving Should Principles Fixed

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)

“What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.”

Quality Principles Teaching Fixed Dogma Frozen Fossils Like Love Religious Dogma Dead Dog

Author:Rajneesh

“All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of civil affairs; must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going beyond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of states and legislation to be modeled on the principles of the true Church.”

“A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.”

May Beautiful Women Principles Flower Fairs Driven Fixed Streams Breeze Floats Beautiful Women

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.”

Church Principles Doctrine Saving Fixed Unchangeable Absolutism

Author:James E. Faust

“I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.”

Principles Standards Fixed

Book:Conversations With Lincoln

Source: Conversations With Lincoln

“... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.”

Ifs Believe I Believe Black White Principles Ought Authority Superiors Fixed

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.”

Source: The Works of George Santayana

“For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.”

Should Wells Done Principles Fixed

Book:George Washington's Expense Account

Source: George Washington's Expense Account