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Things Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of…
- Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
- Peace and not war is the father of all things.
- Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
- The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose…
- It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and…
- It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and…
- 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…
- What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting…
- The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as…
- The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only to…
- War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society…
- In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold weather…
- Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of…
- 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…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle