Allais Paradox Quotes

#1. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#2. To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead

#3. But I know that I have an easier time loving humankind than I do loving particular human beings.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#4. I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#5. Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought

William Shakespeare

#6. Why did people believe it was only the flesh that binds?

Damon Galgut

#7. I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

Mikhail Bakunin

#8. Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

D.H. Lawrence

#9. A large percentage of what we think of when we talk about stress-related diseases are disorders of excessive stress-responses.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#10. A Great Work of Art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

Daisaku Ikeda

#11. The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.

Joe Flanigan

#12. Aw, man, Ava, I should've gotten my own room!" Sully groaned. She

Cynthia Eden