Principles

Famous quotes containing the word principles:

“Custom is our nature.... What are our natural principles but principles of custom?”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

“[E]very thing is useful which contributes to fix us in the principles and practice of virtue.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)