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“The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.”

Quote by Vilfredo Pareto

Book:Manual of political economy

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Manual of political economy

This book delves into the foundational theories and concepts of political economy, examining the interplay between economic policies and social structures. It covers a range of topics including market dynamics, government intervention, and the historical development of economic thought. more

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Vilfredo Pareto

Italian economist known for his theories on economic efficiency and income distribution. Pareto is famous for his 80/20 rule, which states that 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. His theories have had a profound impact on economics, sociology, and political science. more

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“The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.”

May Made Used Values Social Emotion Struggle Economic Theory Ought Objectives Useless Judged Effectiveness Refutation Social Theory

Book:Manual of political economy

Source: Manual of political economy

“Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.”

Men Eye Moral Intellectual Viewpoints Homogeneous

Book:Manual of political economy

Source: Manual of political economy

“Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.”

Has Beens Law Values Limits Being True

Book:Manual of political economy

Source: Manual of political economy

“Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.”

States America United United States Objects Produce Population Luxury Wealthy Civilized United States Of America

Book:Manual of political economy

Source: Manual of political economy

“Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.”

People Play Roles Economic Conditions Concerned Improvement Busybodies

Book:Manual of political economy

Source: Manual of political economy

“Mass, time , magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has: for mass is not an intuition in the muscle, and time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.”

Men Made Moments Ready Mass Concepts Intuition Muscles Unconscious Symbolic Magnetic

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so.”

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Book:Science and Human Values

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“Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.”

Ends Enough Turns Errors Subtle Mistaken Integrated Intertwined

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.”

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“The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.”

Has Beens Reality Changed Appearance Painter Explanation Rooted Portraits Physicist

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values