Jon Elster quotes
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“In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium...”
-- Jon ElsterSource : Jon Elster (1999). “Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions”, p.65, Cambridge University Press
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“Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.”
-- Jon ElsterSource : Jon Elster (2015). “Explaining Social Behavior”, p.118, Cambridge University Press
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“The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.”
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“Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.”
-- Jon ElsterSource : Jon Elster (1989). “Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences”, p.74, Cambridge University Press
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“The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.”
-- Jon ElsterSource : Jon Elster (1989). “The Cement of Society: A Survey of Social Order”, p.250, Cambridge University Press
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Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
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“Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.”
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“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”
Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.9, Da Capo Press
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“I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).”
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