John Maynard Keynes Quotes

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be.

In the long run we are all dead.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.

Neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

There is something wrong with the way in which we make our decisions. The Government listen too much to the pollsters and the party managers. The trouble is that they are not even very good at politics, and they are entering too much into policy decisions. As a result, there is too much short-termism, too much reacting to events, and not enough shaping of events. We give the impression of being in office but not in power. Far too many important decisions are made for 36 hours' publicity.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

Burke ever held, and held rightly, that it can seldom be right . . . to sacrifice a present benefit for a doubtful advantage in the future. . . . It is therefore the happiness of our own contemporaries that is our main concern

If you think two steps ahead, you forget what's important in the now.

I never look forward. I live for today. And if you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

I only live one time.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

You can't think about what you're going to do in the future until you've done things in the present.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.

Live everyday as though it's your last 'cause one day you'll be right.

There is no later. This is later.

When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. (But don't you worry.

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

You never know how much time you'll have.

We are all going to die one day. Everything else, my friend, I am not sure.

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.