The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion.


The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (ed. Library of Alexandria, 1965) - ISBN: 9781465528605

Thorstein Veblen Quotes

The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. ...

The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. ...

The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. ...

The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. ...