[...] The basic principles of it will rest in our own sessions where those who are curious enough and gifted enough intellectually may find the arguments and reasons upon which it is built.

[...] There will be several in which the basic principles will be given simply, directly, with many examples to the ordinary man and woman.

We have of course much to be added to our discussion of principle laws, but the laws will wait. [...]

[...] Seth insisted that those powers, followed at least in principle, would raise man’s estate and fill it with a brilliance and joy in which the old problems of the species would largely disappear.

[...] The principle that action acts upon itself is extremely important when we are dealing with psychological action. The principle that action is self-generating, and that it cannot be withdrawn, is also vital in connection with psychological action.

[...] The pleasure principle can probably be likened most to the latent appreciation of beauty that is everywhere apparent if you look for it: the ecstasy of each form of life for the wonders of its own existence, in which love’s values go beyond themselves, and yet a condition in which each species or life form “realizes” that its own fulfillment adds immeasurably to the existence of all other forms.

[...] And I kept scribbling The Pleasure Principle in my small notebook. [...]

[...] A belief in the principles given, without equivocation, will save even the tooth that is loosest. [...]

[...] It endows all of its parts — or its creations — with its own abilities that then act as inspiration, impetus, guiding lines and principles, by which these parts then seek to further create themselves, their own worlds and systems. [...]

[...] The ego would see no reason for such a memory, and on general principles attempts to repress them.

THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE.
GROUP DREAMS AND VALUE FULFILLMENT

Next chapter heading (10), to be called: “The Pleasure Principle. [...]

Any compromise of principle on Philip’s part will be interpreted not as compromise, but as weakness, and will work against the respect with which they now view him.

[...] If they sense that you will compromise, not in small matters but in basic principles, then you lose this club that you now hold over their heads.

[...] Ruburt in most other areas has discarded that concept, however, and in so doing has enlarged the experiences of his consciousness, and confounded those who accept such principles unthinkingly, as the Air Force personnel.

(Long pauses.) You do not have to worry in an overly strained way about putting the new principles of life into practical experience at once. [...]

[...] It is against my principles, and do not be surprised that I called Ruburt a puritan for he is, a strange mixture of a complete primitive and a complete puritan, and if it were not for me he would be very solemn-faced, indeed. [...]

[...] You believed so strongly in principle, for example, that you would do anything to uphold it and there was little leeway in your personality. [...]

Psychologically you will find this principle quite sound; symbolically, the fearful attempt to become part of the feared individual, and therefore escape the venom that might be directed outward. [...]

The ego simply feared the sudden increase of concentrated energy, and fought on general principles. [...]

Science has unfortunately bound up the minds of its own even most original thinkers, for they dare not stray from certain scientific principles. [...]

[...] He had the ability, very strong creative energies, but he did not have the idea or principle to unite him as a personality and focus his energies. [...]

He thinks basically that it is, and he accepts the basic principles of the work—that is, the Seth material. [...]

[...] The nontime principle however operates in such a manner that a personality can only participate in the ways that I have described, in systems with which he has some familiarity because of his own experience. [...]