Sentence examples for maxim rather than from inspiring English sources

But although Kant holds that the morality of an action depends on the form of its maxim rather than its end or goal, he nevertheless claims both that every human action has an end and that we are unavoidably concerned with the consequences of our actions (4:4385 5:385 6:5–7, 385).

She walked lions, not dogs; drank beer, not sherry; and bathed opposite improving maxims rather than wallpaper patterns.

Washington articulated his secret succinctly: "With me it has always been a maxim rather to let my designs appear from my works than by my expressions".

Wells was a first-class reporter, and he had the advantage of staying with his friend, Maxim Gorky, rather than the carefully-monitored hotel usually reserved for foreign visitors.

On the other hand there are those who argue fairy godmothers should not be multimillionaire Russian businessmen and that the Cherries have escaped the Championship on the back of Maxim Demin's money rather than the footballing ability of Howe and his players.

The years that followed, as Dederich became a capricious despot, are a testament to danger of maxims that are clever rather than wise, and to the flexible nature of addiction.

But after a long delay the result came in at 46.5%, supporting Stalin's famous maxim that it is the counting rather than the voting that matters.

We cannot do so, because our own happiness is the very end contained in the maxim of giving ourselves over to pleasure rather than self-development.

That's how cinema evolved first to show, rather than tell, which remains a maxim for aspiring screenwriters.

It is certainly not my role to judge a patient for his or her past, but such a feat forces me to disregard Sir William Osler's sacrosanct maxim to know the person with the disease rather than the disease itself.

China has preferred instead to put general economic development ahead of military development, following Deng Xiaoping's maxim that national strength derives from the economy rather than the barrel of a gun.