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“All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.”

Men Values Return Starting Scales Again And Again Organize Starting Point Excursions

Book:A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

“As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.”

Humans Values Human Beings Existence Scales Sensible Agony

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!”

Soul Wisdom Values Politics Realizing Class Economy Scales Liberalism Materialism Working Class Belly

Book:Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

“One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.”

World Two Wisdom Faces Values Politics Economy Four Mankind Six Scales Rhythm Liberalism Torn Vibrations Disparity Torn Apart

Book:The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Source: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

“The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same is attempted internationally. The conflict between planning and freedom cannot but become more serious as the similarity of standards and values among those submitted to a unitary plan diminishes.”

Problem Values Greater Plans Economic Serious Conflict Standards Conscious Assuming Raised Affair Scales Planning Dimensions Diminish Similarity Standards And Values

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek