Economic Quote by Allan Bloom

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which…

— Burnett Hillman Streeter

The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it…

— Herbert Marcuse

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

— Socrates

Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life…

— Eva Hesse

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

— E. F. Schumacher

“The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In the pursuit…

— Ludwig Von Mises

The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value…

— Vilfredo Pareto

“Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn…

— Viktor E. Frankl

The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a…

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is…

— Will Hutton