Metaphysicists Quotes & Sayings

Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx failed to recognize the incentive system built into the capitalist model - consumer choice and the profit motive of the entrepreneur. The irony is that capitalism, not socialism or Marxism, that has liberated the worker from the chains of poverty, monopoly, war, and oppression, and has better achieved Marx's vision of a millennium of hope, peace, abundance, leisure, and aesthetic expression for the 'full' human being. — Mark Skousen

Sometimes the future is overrated. — Kim Holden

Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king.. its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. — Nikola Tesla

They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped. — Denis Johnson

The madness was gone, but now I knew the torment of sanity. My — Rhiannon Frater

He was distressed to learn that the Pottery Barn Kids gift registry did not extend to children's books in Italian or Yiddish. — Sylvain Reynard

That's the downside of growing up. There's a lot of pretending involved. We frequently act like someone other than who we really are because we don't know or aren't comfortable with our true selves. — Connor Franta

I wonder through the days like a whore in a world with no sidewalks. — Emil Cioran

A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic. — Peter Lynch

The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared? — Lily Tomlin