- “All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas...”
Essays in Biography, Collected Writings: 67, 1926
- “I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.”
The End of Laissez-Faire, Collected Writings Volume IX: 277, 1926
- “But soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.”
Chapter 24, The General Theory, 1936: 384
- “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones…”
Preface to The General Theory, Keynes, 1936, p. viii
- “A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind”
The End of Laissez-Faire, Collected Writings Volume IX: 277, 1926
- “...theory...is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking...”
Economic Articles and Correspondence, Collected Writings: 856, 1922 and 1923
The Aphorist
