More from John Maynard Keynes

  1. There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
  2. The boys, who cannot grow up to adult human nature, are beating the prophets of the ancient race - Marx, Freud, Einstein - who have been te…
  3. His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.
  4. 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 …
  5. The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is no…
  6. The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be …
  7. Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
  8. They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it co…

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