"My wish is to construct a system of……" — Vilfredo Pareto
"My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry."
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Vilfredo Pareto
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17 Quotes by Vilfredo Pareto
Vilfredo Pareto has 17 quotes on this site.
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Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social…
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The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods
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The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would…
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In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts…
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When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.
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Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they…
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Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able…
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It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of…
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The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to…
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For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of…
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Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite;…
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Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...]…
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More Celestial Quotes
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
— Annie Besant
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:…
— Margaret Cavendish
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With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.
— Russell M. Nelson
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm…
— Pablo Neruda
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Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's…
— Thomas Traherne
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I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that…
— Thomas S. Monson
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[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he…
— William J. Clinton
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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the…
— Richard Le Gallienne
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It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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