"Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance."

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Source : William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.217

William Stanley Jevons

“Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.”
“The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.”
“We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment.”
“The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.”
“As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.”
“It's all too much and not enough at the same time.”
“Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.”
“The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live--he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.”

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