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Capitalism5 quotes
The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation...That incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Laissez faire does not mean: Let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: Let each individual choose how he wants to cooperate in the social division of labor; let the consumers determine what the entrepreneurs should produce. Planning means: Let the government alone choose and enforce its rulings by the apparatus of coercion and compulsion. — Ludwig von Mises · 1949Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world. — Ludwig von Mises · 1949Every piece of business strategy... Must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of creative destruction. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Freedom3 quotes
The history of liberty has largely been the history of observance of procedural safeguards. — Felix Frankfurter · 1943The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. — Friedrich Hayek · 1944Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. — Viktor Frankl · 1946Language3 quotes
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1921The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1922Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953Marxism3 quotes
Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Music3 quotes
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1777I am happier when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1777Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1786Philosophy3 quotes
What is your aim in philosophy?-To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it... It leaves everything as it is. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953Democracy2 quotes
In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives. — Felix Frankfurter · 1962Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Dreams2 quotes
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. — Sigmund Freud · 1899All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. — Elias Canetti · 1972Free market2 quotes
Laissez faire does not mean: Let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: Let each individual choose how he wants to cooperate in the social division of labor; let the consumers determine what the entrepreneurs should produce. Planning means: Let the government alone choose and enforce its rulings by the apparatus of coercion and compulsion. — Ludwig von Mises · 1949The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world. — Ludwig von Mises · 1949Happiness2 quotes
Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish. — Sigmund Freud · 1898Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. — Viktor Frankl · 1946Human nature2 quotes
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. — Elias Canetti · 1960To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest... The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. — Alfred Adler · 1956Limits of language2 quotes
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1921The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1922Meaning of life2 quotes
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. — Viktor Frankl · 1946A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.” — Viktor Frankl · 1946Politics2 quotes
The great masses of the people...more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one. — Adolf Hitler · 1925The priest persuades humble people to endure their hard lot; the politician urges them to rebel against it; and the scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether. — Max Perutz · 1989Religion2 quotes
Religion is illusion, and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. — Sigmund Freud · 1933The priest persuades humble people to endure their hard lot; the politician urges them to rebel against it; and the scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether. — Max Perutz · 1989Silence2 quotes
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. — Georg Trakl · 1912The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides! — Artur Schnabel · 1958The human condition2 quotes
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. — Viktor Frankl · 1946We are like sailors who must rebuild their ship on the open sea, never able to dismantle it in dry-dock and to reconstruct it there out of the best materials. — Otto Neurath · 1921Abandonment1 quote
The most extreme agony is to feel that one has been utterly forsaken. — Bruno Bettelheim · 1979Artistic expression1 quote
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1777Attitude and mindset1 quote
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. — Viktor Frankl · 1946Body and soul1 quote
The human body is the best picture of the human soul. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953Bureaucracy1 quote
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Business strategy1 quote
Every piece of business strategy... Must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of creative destruction. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Changing oneself1 quote
When we are no longer able to change a situation... We are challenged to change ourselves. — Viktor Frankl · 1946Civilization1 quote
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. — Sigmund Freud · 1917Consumerism1 quote
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. — Ivan Illich · 1973Courage1 quote
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer. — Viktor Frankl · 1946Creativity1 quote
I am happier when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1777Crying1 quote
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer. — Viktor Frankl · 1946Death1 quote
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1922