Philosophy Quotes - Page 18

• Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Life, Death, Art

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• While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.

  Seth Klarman

  Intelligent, Long, Psychology

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• Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

  John Updike

  Art, Writing, History

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• Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.

  Loren Eiseley

  Life, Future, Men

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.50, Library of America

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• The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.

  John Bates Clark

  Hype, Issues, Giving

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• Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Government, Political, Bonus

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• Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Rights, Mountain

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• A dry soul is wisest and best.

  Heraclitus

  Soul, Dry, Wisest

  Heraclitus (1981). “The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: A New Arrangement and Translation of the Fragments with Literary and Philosophical Commentary”, p.245, Cambridge University Press

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• Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Two, Support

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

  William Osler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Decision

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.18, ACP Press

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• Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

  Gary Becker

  Punishment, Political, Economics

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• Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

  Alan Greenspan

  Jobs, Political, Littles

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• It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with which they fit into his general conceptions, into the picture of the world which he regards as modern or advanced.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Ideas, Judging, Political

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• What must never be lost sight of is that a public functionary, in his capacity as functionary, produces absolutely nothing; that, on the contrary, he exists only on the products of the industrious class; and that he can consume nothing that has not been taken from the producers.

  Charles Dunoyer

  Taken, Class, Sight

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• Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

  Jacques Delors

  Political, Unions, Economics

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• It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Political, Wish, World

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.301, Regnery Publishing

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• Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

  Henry George

  Economic Inequality, Political, Labor Day

  Henry George (1911). “The complete works of Henry George”

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• The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Two, Political, Intellectual

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• I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

  Thomas Jefferson

  Political, Important, Debt

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• From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

  Heraclitus

  Oneness, Unity

  "Fragments (Fragment 10)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

  Francis Hutcheson

  Rights, Government, Political

  Francis Hutcheson (1753). “An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue”, p.301

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• There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Political, Employment, Way

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.222, Crown Business

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• I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis of the general social advantage, taking an ever greater responsibility for directly organizing investments.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Responsibility, Views, Long

  John Maynard Keynes (1988). “Keynes and Public Policy After Fifty Years: Theories and method”, Edward Elgar Pub

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• The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas, all they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems. The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Liars, Blessing, Government

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• Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

  Friedrich List

  Political, Economics, Transportation

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