Hari Kumar > Hari's Quotes

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” p.71

“Affection is taken as the image when God is represented as our Father; Eros, when Christ is represented as the Bridegroom of the Church.” p.78

“The little pockets of early Christians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of “the brethren” and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society all around them.” p.70

“Friendship is even, if you like, angelic. But man needs to be triply protected by humility if he is to eat the bread of angels without risk.” p.87”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
― John Maynard Keynes

“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”
― John Maynard Keynes

“When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?”
― John Maynard Keynes

“The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“Ideas shape the course of history.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“In the long run, we are all dead!”
― John Maynard Keynes

“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“[People] will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other alternatives.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“Men will not always die quietly.”
― John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency.”
― John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace: Enriched edition. Analyzing the Aftermath: Economic Treaties and Post-War Europe

“Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others”
― John Maynard Keynes

“There is a danger of expecting the results of the future to be predicted from the past.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth”
― John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
― Warren Buffett

“So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
― Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

“True happiness…is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. —Helen Keller How many breaths do you think you have left in your life? How many sunsets have you stood in awe of this month? How many more sunsets do you think you have left? How many times have you told your best friend that you love them recently? How many more “I love yous” might you have left to give this person?”
― Jenna LeJeune, Values in Therapy: A Clinician's Guide to Helping Clients Explore Values, Increase Psychological Flexibility, and Live a More Meaningful Life

“For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Journey before destination, you bastard.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“if you copy from one author, it’s plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it’s research.”
― Wilson Mizner