Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.

The only thing more compelling than love is power.

Some people sit at life’ banquet table while others serve them

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.