It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.

So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.