Costs merely register competing attractions.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.

We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.

A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.

I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

That was never on my radar, traffic stopping. It was never important to me.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

Ideas come from curiosity.