Notable Quote

"Human action is purposeful behavior. Or we may say: Action is will put into operation and transformed into an agency, is aiming at ends and goals, is the ego's meaningful response to stimuli and to the conditions of its environment, is a person's conscious adjustment to the state of the universe that determines his life."

von Mises, Ludwig event 1949

From Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

Context: Opening definition of praxeology in Part One, Chapter I of Human Action (1949)