“An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.”
Podobne cytaty:
- I see many …
“I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically gettin killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is
- The dead might …
“The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.”
- After I’m dead …
“After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”
- Speech is human, …
“Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.”
- One of the …
“One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.”