“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
More from John Maynard Keynes on Philosophy
“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
“The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.”
“Ideas shape the course of history.”
“The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Charlotte Brontë
13 quotes“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are...”