"The answer had been given to me by life itself, in my knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. And that knowledge I did not arrive at in any way, it was given to me as to all men, given, because I could not have got it from anywhere." Leo Tolstoy, Ana Karenina
"Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon. Its essential requisites are not human labor and external natural forces and things, but the decision of the mind to use these factors for the attainment of ends." Mises, Human Action. "Far above the millions that come and pass away tower the pioneers, the men whose deeds and ideas cut out new paths for mankind" Mises, Human Action, Ch.7 "It is ideas that make history, and not history that makes ideas." Ludwig von Misses, Human Action. "This process of giving outselves up to a difficult task and finding that by pouring ourselves into it we are met with a solution that satisfies and exceeds our expectations is one that has a religious analogy." Gelwick, The Way of Discovery. "It (Principia) is a challenge, and an exhilirating challenge. But it is one that every student is equal to, if the adventure is approached with an adventurous spirit." Newton's Principia: The Central Argument. |