We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.
We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.
Let our lives be in accordance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.