John Hick Quotes
John Harwood Hick was a British philosopher of religion and one of the most influential religious thinkers of the late twentieth century. Trained at Edinburgh, Oxford, and Cambridge, he held chairs at Birmingham and at the Claremont Graduate School in California. The quotes below are attributed to John Hick, organized by topic.
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John Hick on God
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“All the great religions are different responses to the same ultimate Reality.”
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“Suffering is the matrix of soul-making.”
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“Religious experience is the human encounter with the Real.”
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“No religion can claim a monopoly on truth.”
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“Faith is the interpretive element in religious experience.”
John Hick on Knowledge
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“Econometrica (1935), "The Theory of Monopoly”
The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life. -
“I can date my own personal 'revolution' rather exactly to May or June 1933. It was like this. It began... with Hayek . His "Prices and Production" is one of the influences that can be detected in The Theory of Wages; it could not have been otherwise, for 1931 was a Prices and Production year at the London School of Economics... I did not in fact find it all easy to fit in with my own ideas. What started me off in 1933 was an earlier work of Hayek's, his paper on 'Intertemporal Equilibrium', an idea which I found easier to reduce to my preferred (Paretian or Wicksellian) pattern.”
John Hicks, The Theory of Wages , 2nd Edition (1963), p. 307 -
“I can date my own personal 'revolution' rather exactly to May or June 1933. It was like this. It began... with Hayek . His "Prices and Production" is one of the influences that can be detected in The Theory of Wages; it could not have been otherwise, for 1931 was a Prices and Production year at the London School of Economics... I did not in fact find it all easy to fit in with my own ideas. What s”
John Hicks, The Theory of Wages , 2nd Edition (1963), p. 307 -
“John Hicks (1979), quoted in: Nitasha Kaul (2007) Imagining Economics Otherwise. p. 76”
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of pure mathematics . -
“The purpose of income calculations in practical affairs is to give people an indication of the amount which they can consume without impoverishing themselves. Following out this idea, it would seem that we ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.”
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“Income No. 3 must be defined as the maximum amount of money which the individual can spend this week, and still be able to spend the same amount in real terms in each ensuing week.”
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John Hick on Life
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“The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.”
Econometrica (1935), "The Theory of Monopoly
John Hick on Mind
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“There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of pure mathematics .”
John Hicks (1979), quoted in: Nitasha Kaul (2007) Imagining Economics Otherwise. p. 76
John Hick on Nature
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“Kenneth Arrow and John Hicks (1972) From Nobel Lectures, Economics 1969-1980 , Editor Assar Lindbeck, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992 ( online )”
While economic theory in general may be defined as the theory of how an economic condition or an economic development is determined within an institutional framework, the welfare theory deals with how to judge whether one condition can be said to be better in some way than another and whether it is possible, by altering the institutional framework, to achieve a better condition than the present on
John Hick on Time
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“While economic theory in general may be defined as the theory of how an economic condition or an economic development is determined within an institutional framework, the welfare theory deals with how to judge whether one condition can be said to be better in some way than another and whether it is possible, by altering the institutional framework, to achieve a better condition than the present one.”
Kenneth Arrow and John Hicks (1972) From Nobel Lectures, Economics 1969-1980 , Editor Assar Lindbeck, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992 ( online )