| Author |
Quotes |
| Lin Yutang | Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it. |
| Lin Yutang | Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy. |
| Livy | We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. |
| Lord Buckley | You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press. |
| Lord Chesterfield | Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. |
| Lord Halifax | There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured. |
| Lord Halifax | Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. |
| Lord Halifax | A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second. |
| Louis Debonnaire | It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms. |
| Louis Pasteur | Happy is he who bears a god within. |
| Lucille S Harper | If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed. |
| Ludwig von Mises | Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual. |
| Ludwig von Mises | Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon. |
| Ludwig von Mises | It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at. |
| Ludwig von Mises | Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought. |
| Ludwig von Mises | Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought. |
| Ludwig von Mises | Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories. |
| Ludwig von Mises | In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas. |
| Ludwig von Mises | The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot. |
| Ludwig von Mises | It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch. |
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