Quote #7
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
More from John Kenneth Galbraith
- Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
- In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere o…
- You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
- There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
- Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large sc…
- Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
- Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such iner…