The Being of Language – Quote by Hans-Georg Gadamer
“The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it – what is said.”
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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“Happiness is pleasure without regret” – Leo Tolstoy
“Happiness is pleasure without regret”
Leo Tolstoi
Quote by Walter Lippmann on the Role of Moralists
“The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.”
Walter Lippmann
Hans-Georg Gadamer on Understanding and Being Right
“From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.”
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Lafayette on Liberty and Service – Quote
“Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.”
Lafayette
Quote on Wealth and Poverty by Leo Tolstoy
“Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.”
Leo Tolstoi
Lafayette on U.S. Dignity, Power, and Confidence
“The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.”
Lafayette
Political Climate of Opinion – Quote by Milton Friedman
“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.”
Milton Friedman
Leo Tolstoy’s Philosophy of Life – Life as Service and Purpose
“The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”
Leo Tolstoi
Milton Friedman on Business and Free Enterprise
“Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger….Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that’s a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.”
Milton Friedman