60 Quotes by Kenneth E. Boulding

There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day and lift up our soul in praise, thankfulness and conscious unity. With practise this God-ward turn of the mind becomes an almost constant direction, underlying all our other activities.

If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things.

The concept of a value-free science is absurd.

We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.