#on

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other. ↗

— Guy Debord

#behind #choice #confront #different #each

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium. ↗

— Gerard Debreu

#dedication #economic #economics #equilibrium #general

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests. ↗

— Gerard Debreu

#became #berkeley #economic #interests #main

The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do. ↗

— Gerard Debreu

#environment #i #optimal #research #type

The world is no longer against us. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#longer #us #world

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

#inscrutable #magical #miracle #more #our

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church. ↗

— Edith Stein

#church #degree #devotion #elevation #gift

Our country right or wrong. ↗

— Stephen Decatur

#our #right #wrong

There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any “social contract” or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world. ↗

— George Steiner

#religion

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. ↗

— John Denham

#genius #his #less #nor #ought