John Maynard
John Maynard
disgusting life love means money possession realities recognized somewhat
The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life - will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propens
current guide misleading run
But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
education
Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent
avarice fair foul gods hundred longer ourselves precaution useful
For at least another hundred years we must preÂtend 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.
lakes people promise
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
letting-go art business
Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
regarded
Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory
owe problem
If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.
brought corner difficulty escaping
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
years two quality
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.
atheism information wells
Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
government continuing-on important
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
inspirational change lying
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
scarcity reason capitalism
There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.