John Maynard Keynes
11 quotations
Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
In the long run we are all dead.
But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.