The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... &. .. Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.—
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
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Karl Lagerfeld
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
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Brian Tracy
I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
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Kahlil Gibran
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired...
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Richard Dawkins
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Henry James
More Quotes By John Kenneth Galbraith
Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in...
None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter good economists who are difficult writers even though some of the best have been very good writers. He should know, moreover, that at...
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.
