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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

John Maynard Keynes

Mind

Nothing

states

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes

Thoughts

Words

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Maynard Keynes

Wealth

Inflation

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

John Maynard Keynes

Successful

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.