“ Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit. ”
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“ The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve. ”
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“ The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve. ”
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“ What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need. ”
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“ The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot. ”
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“ Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival. ”
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“ Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. ”
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“ True socialists should not place any obstacles in the way of capitalist evolution. For only the full maturity of capitalism could bring about socialism. ”
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“ All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out. ”
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“ True socialists should not place any obstacles in the way of capitalist evolution. For only the full maturity of capitalism could bring about socialism. ”
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“ At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?... Amazed! ”
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“ What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. ”
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“ What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. ”
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“ Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. ”
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“ As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. ”
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“ In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas. ”
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“ Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before… ”
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“ Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. ”
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“ Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. ”
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“ Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before… ”
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“ The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot. ”
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“ Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. ”
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“ Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. ”
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“ Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends… ”
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“ Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before… ”
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“ Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own. ”
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“ Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. ”
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“ The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity. ”
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