John Maynard Keynes Quotes
John Maynard Keynes Quotes
The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
1018 Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
3490 When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
4374 Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.
2848 Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
1217 A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
3458 The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.
2888 How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
1763 The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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