Thorstein Veblen Famous Quotes
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen Quotations
"I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me."
Isaac Newton
The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William Hazlitt
"At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry."
Gloria Steinem
"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be."
Archibald MacLeish
"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves."
Elias Canetti
"If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being."
Kathleen Norris
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.
Kahlil Gibran
Every invalid is a doctor.
Irish Proverb
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
"The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat."
Albert Einstein