"And, once they [the truths] have been digested and have entered into the apparatus of the mind, it is possible for most people to move fairly safely over a terrain otherwise most dangerous."
— Keynes, John Maynard (1883-1946)
Work Title
Date
May 27, 1943
Metaphor
"And, once they [the truths] have been digested and have entered into the apparatus of the mind, it is possible for most people to move fairly safely over a terrain otherwise most dangerous."
Metaphor in Context
And, after all, it is very easily understood! There is scarcely an undergraduate of the modern generation from whom these truths are hidden. And, once they have been digested and have entered into the apparatus of the mind, it is possible for most people to move fairly safely over a terrain otherwise most dangerous.
(pp. 325-6)
(pp. 325-6)
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Provenance
Reading Sylvia Nasar's "Keynes: The Sunny Economist" in The New York Times, Sunday Review (September 18, 2011). <Link to nytimes.com>
Citation
John Maynard Keynes, The Collected Writings, vol xxvii, ed. Donald Moggridge, (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1980), 325-6.
Quoted in D. E. Moggridge, Maynard Keynes: An Economist's Biography (London: Routledge, 1992), 711. <Link to Google Books>
Quoted in D. E. Moggridge, Maynard Keynes: An Economist's Biography (London: Routledge, 1992), 711. <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
09/23/2011
