Keeping Possibilities Open – Quote by Hans-Georg Gadamer
“The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.”
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Producer and Consumer – Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.”
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Ayn Rand Quote on Work and Human Value
“There’s nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It’s the only measure of human value.”
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand Quote About Learning and Fear
“If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
Ayn Rand
“Property is the Right of Increase” – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.”
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Ayn Rand Quote About Love and Values
“I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.”
Ayn Rand
Quote by Walter Lippmann on Leadership and National Ideals
“Leaders are the custodians of a nation’s ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.”
Walter Lippmann
Quote by Walter Lippmann on Love and Life Contents
“Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.”
Walter Lippmann
Quote by Hans-Georg Gadamer on Art and History
“For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.”
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Leo Tolstoy Quote about God and the First Cause
“There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in – a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget – the God whom we all have to serve – exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.”
Leo Tolstoi