He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol - a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
![“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 beginning with page 45 [Hayek provided historical background up to page 45; after that came his theoretical model], and yet it remains a book of some interest…” quote by John Maynard Keynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1df/john-maynard-keynes-1380_backgrounds_the-book-as-it-stands-seems-to-me-to-be_646533.jpg)
