 | Harry Levin - 1988 - 225 lapas
...You yourself are a goldsmith, you're in the business, you're the beneficiary, cui bono? Oscar Wilde's definition of a cynic, as one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, could be interpreted as another distinction between the comic and the tragic outlook. A... | |
 | Bhikhu C. Parekh - 1993 - 384 lapas
...concerned with value it is rather disturbing. He may be tempted to see the economist as Oscar Wilde saw the cynic — as one "who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." Our philosopher might conclude, hastily and incorrectly, that economics has nothing to... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen - 1918 - 270 lapas
...quintessential skeptic, would have enjoyed the application of Oscar Wilde's characterization of the cynic as "one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" to much of economics and, as we will later see, to modern economics sister social sciences,... | |
 | Maureen Appel Molot, Von Riekhoff - 1994 - 384 lapas
...constraints. The query can be posed whether Canadian foreign policy will come to approximate Oscar Wilde's definition of a cynic, as one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. The dilemma facing the Canadian government reflects the one which plagues the UN system—that... | |
 | Irving Louis Horowitz - 316 lapas
...quintessential skeptic, would have enjoyed the application of Oscar Wilde's characterization of the cynic as "one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" to much of economics and, as we will later see, to modern economics sister social sciences,... | |
 | Fulton John Sheen, Henry Dieterich - 2003 - 240 lapas
...the bottle of perfume, the odor filled the house and Judas got one whiff of it. Oscar Wilde describes a cynic as one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Judas immediately put a price on the perfume: 300 days' wages. It was very precious perfume.... | |
 | Carol Weston - 2009 - 450 lapas
...you're not sure, smile and say, Til consider the best offer you can make." • "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." So wrote Oscar Wilde. • Success? Christopher Moriey said, "There is only one success — to be able... | |
 | Manfred Weidhorn - 2006 - 441 lapas
...esthetic bottom, a catering to the lowest taste and drives. Capitalist man nicely fits Oscar Wilde's definition of a cynic as one "who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." Nor is democracy necessarily the godsend that Westerners take it to be. It provides much... | |
 | Bhikhu C. Parekh - 1993 - 384 lapas
...concerned with value it is rather disturbing. He may be tempted to see the economist as Oscar Wilde saw the cynic — as one "who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." Our philosopher might conclude, hastily and incorrectly, that economics has nothing to... | |
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There is an old definition of a cynic as "one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. 