A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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