I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESTo our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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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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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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