“One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.” NeedsImportantSuccessfulFiguresAccountsManagementVisibleBeing SuccessfulNevertheless Author:W. Edwards Deming
“To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.” IfsHumansDoeMatterSeemsTodayValuesResponsibilityPrinciplesEconomyEthicsAccountsFunctionVisibleSolidarityInteriorsExteriorHuman ValuesReciprocal Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.” DifferencesEffectsAccountsVisibleEconomistForeseen Author:Frederic Bastiat
“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.” PeopleWorldGivingTwoSometimesFactsHandsOrderEventsOrdinaryAccountsVisibleHistorianRelevantProvokingLinkedOrdinary PeoplePrivate LifeInner Life Author:Victor Hugo
“Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more. In response I put the question, 'What then is science, particularly psychoanalytic psychology?' Whereup on he, visible a bit surprised, answered evasively: 'At least psychology has a social purpose.'” PhilosophyFormSciencePurposeSocialBitsOpinionPsychologyAccountsResponseSexualityDecentVisibleEarnestRepressedPsychoanalytic Author:Ludwig Binswanger