Freedom Quote by Jon Elster

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues,…

— C. Wright Mills

The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

“at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing—the solution of the social problem is in…

— Frédéric Bastiat

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

— William Kingdon Clifford

We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the…

— James Q. Wilson

Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword…

— Richard M. Weaver

At the foundation of every life is one central desire: to make a difference that you lived.

— Ron Smothermon

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves,…

— Oscar Wilde

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

— John Ralston Saul

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of…

— Amartya Sen