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“If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.”

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Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.”

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Book:De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851

Source: De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851

“It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective (except in substitution for investment by other entrepreneurs which would have occurred otherwise) at a faster rate than the public decide to increase their savings”

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Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.”

“The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.”

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Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.”

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Book:Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

Source: Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

“...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.”