I believe the declaration that "all men are created equal" is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions res...t.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust pur...poses, without a sacrifice of the fundamental principle of republicanism?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into th...e idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understa...nd must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in your ordered verdict of guilty you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my ...civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually but all of my sex are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this so-called republican form of government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the pol...arity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both in principle and in their private attitude toward mankind Johnson and Rousseau were irreconcilable opponents. Johnson had a v...oracious appetite for life, and was passionately concerned with the welfare of individual men and women; while Rousseau, although he was persuaded that he loved the human race, or would have loved it if he could, followed a solitary, self-centred course and, among a host of associates, protectors, disciples, made comparatively few friends whose opinions and support he valued. Here one remembers another literary dispute, held some hundred-and-fifty years later, when Henry James, writing to the youthful H.G. Wells, described their fundamental difference. "You," he explained, "don't care for humanity but think they are to be improved. I love humanity but know they are not!" Johnson, too, despite his capacity for deep affection, was a life-long pessimist; Rousseau, the suspicious and resentful exile, was an inveterate reformer, and launched the doctrine of "human perfectibility" that made so strong, and often so confusing, an appeal to English nineteenth-century Romantic poets. He was a teacher; but his chief aim was primarily to teach himself; if he desired to learn, he confessed, it was primarily in order to understand his own character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To de-animalize human mentality, to purge it of obsolete evolutionary characteristics, in particular of death,... which foreknowledge terrorizes the contents of skulls with, is the fundamental project of technology;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to cons...ciousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtain...ed is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »