It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.


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I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are ...
EDMUND PHELPS
At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are...
EDMUND PHELPS
An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare stat...
EDMUND PHELPS
Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies ...
EDMUND PHELPS
Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that ...
EDMUND PHELPS
When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and fina...
EDMUND PHELPS
My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the t...
EDMUND PHELPS
Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their con...
EDMUND PHELPS
Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
EDMUND PHELPS
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constituti...
EDMUND MORGAN
The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particu...
EDMUND MORGAN
Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They ...
EDMUND MORGAN
Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchan...
EDMUND MORGAN
The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer ...
EDMUND MORGAN
It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is ...
EDMUND MORGAN
Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson s...
EDMUND MORGAN
Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who...
EDMUND MORGAN
In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jeffer...
EDMUND MORGAN
No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
EDMUND MORGAN
Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, ...
EDMUND MORGAN
The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that the...
EDMUND MORGAN
The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist t...
EDMUND MORGAN
The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did no...
EDMUND MORGAN
To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one fro...
EDMUND MORGAN
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not bea...
EDMUND LEACH
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between ...
EDMUND LEACH
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets...
EDMUND LEACH
Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make u...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objec...
EDMUND HUSSERL
What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essent...
EDMUND HUSSERL
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reali...
EDMUND HUSSERL
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the ...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of st...
EDMUND HUSSERL
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherei...
EDMUND HUSSERL
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
EDMUND HUSSERL
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
EDMUND HUSSERL
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
EDMUND HUSSERL
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness throug...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which...
EDMUND HUSSERL
At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, proc...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Obje...
EDMUND HUSSERL
Experience by itself is not science.
EDMUND HUSSERL
I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
EDMUND HILLARY