Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
It's a very basic, simple idea, isn't it - saying thank you, saying sorry - and in the overcomplicated, over-busy world we live in it is very powerful.
When I write songs, it's just me and a cassette player - or at least it used to be before smartphones - to quickly record a basic idea.
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
The battle is over the most basic ideas of our democracy; at stake,--according to both sides—is either the revitalization of politics, or its final capture by the powerful.
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
