Harold Hotelling famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
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I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.
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Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.
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Man is a perpetually wanting animal.
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Every man lives by exchanging.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
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Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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