John Maynard Keynes on Mind
1883–1946 England
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Essays in Persuasion (1931)
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)
His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45 [Hayek provided historical background up to page 45; after that came his theoretical model], and yet it remains a book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in bedlam.