Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Quote of the Day (Thorstein Veblen, on ‘Individuals With an Aberrant Temperament’)


“Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.”— Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

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