It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. - Lois McMaster Bujold
The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are. - Julius Evola
[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.