Paul Zane Pilzer Quotes

We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.

I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

We cannot say that everything developed in capitalist countries is of a capitalist nature. For instance, technology, science - even advanced production management is also a sort of science - will be useful in any society or country.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.

Most economics that is taught in college and universities today projects itself as a value-neutral science. This claim has always been open to question, but I think it's especially in doubt today.

When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.

Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political economy (and therefore knew it ill) have taken upon themselves to advise, and could only do so by such lights as they had.

I don't think "Reganomics" will ever fully end. I mean, Reaganomics, to put it simply, was trying to get low taxes for wealthy people. And wealthy people are still there pushing for low taxes.

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

Diminish the influence of fate

At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts. Nevertheless, for entirely speculative reasons the philosophers of Antiquity, especially the Stoics, concluded this concept to be quite unnecessary. The prodigious development of physics has now reached the same conclusion as those philosophers, Empedocles and Democritus in particular, who lived around 500 B.C.E. and for whom even ancient man had a lively admiration.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.