More from John Maynard Keynes

  1. The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it begin…
  2. The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
  3. There was an attraction at first that Mr Baldwin should not be clever. But when he forever sentimentalises about his own stupidity, the cha…
  4. Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
  5. They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it co…
  6. If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
  7. 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 …
  8. I don't really start until I get my proofs back from the printers. Then I can begin my serious writing.

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