Philosophical entities exist only insofar as they have been philosophically posited. Outside their philosophical framework, the empirical data that a philosophy organizes lose every possible unity and cohesion.
~ Umberto Eco
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Category Archives: 2059 – Quote Unquote
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera
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The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I’m for that. Where the government is necessary, I’m for that.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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If you fail to honor people, they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when her work is done, her aims fulfilled, they will all say, “We did this ourselves.”
~ Lao Zi
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Power is as power does.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it’s the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.
~ William Faulkner
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
~ Gertrude Stein
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If you control the choke points of social mobility, then you control the nation’s culture. And if you change the criteria for admission at places such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, then you change the nation’s social ideal.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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