Best Thorstein Veblen Quotes
- The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is… Accepted
- These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed… Affect
- Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate… Any
- The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession. Aesthetic
- The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When… Assimilate
- Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. Conservatism
- The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. Addiction
- Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity… Beautiful
- Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. Bend
- The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. Any
- Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with… Beautiful