The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.
You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.