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“Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.”
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“I'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. I'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor.”
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“Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.”
Source : Gilbert Ryle (2009). “The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.5, Routledge
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“Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give back the material of which they are made so that new stars may live”
Source : Hans Albrecht Bethe (1968). “Energy production in stars: Nobel lecture”
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“The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.”
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“The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.”
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“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
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“Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models.”
Source : "An Economic Theorist's Book of Tales". Book by George Akerlof, October 26, 1984.
