Source: The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979), Chapter 2, Man and Culture, p. 59
Source: "Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure", 1976, p. 310
“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships”
"Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw" ["Nota sobre (hacia) Bernard Shaw"] (1951)
Other Inquisitions (1952)
Source: Ficciones
Context: A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.
Source: Culture's consequences: International differences in work-related values (1980), p. 148.
(1857/58)
Source: MEW Vol. 42, p. 176.
Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
“The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.”
Misc Quotes
“It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.”
Journal entry (12 October 1916), p. 84e
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
113
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
Page 26 of the 1991 reprint
The Ecology of Freedom (1982)
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870), Note I : Hâjî Abdû, The Man
Context: I am an individual … a circle touching and intersecting my neighbours at certain points, but nowhere corresponding, nowhere blending. Physically I am not identical in all points with other men. Morally I differ from them: in nothing do the approaches of knowledge, my five organs of sense (with their Shelleyan "interpenetration"), exactly resemble those of any other being. Ergo, the effect of the world, of life, of natural objects, will not in my case be the same as with the beings most resembling me. Thus I claim the right of creating or modifying for my own and private use, the system which most imports me; and if the reasonable leave be refused to me, I take it without leave.
But my individuality, however all-sufficient for myself, is an infinitesimal point, an atom subject in all things to the Law of Storms called Life. I feel, I know that Fate is. But I cannot know what is or what is not fated to befall me. Therefore in the pursuit of perfection as an individual lies my highest, and indeed my only duty, the "I" being duly blended with the "We." I object to be a "self-less man," which to me denotes an inverted moral sense. I am bound to take careful thought concerning the consequences of every word and deed. When, however, the Future has become the Past, it would be the merest vanity for me to grieve or to repent over that which was decreed by universal Law.
