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The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher – in some degree. He must contemplate the particular, in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought.

John M. Keynes 27. February 2017

Liberalism is no closed doctrine and rigid dogma. It is an application of the principles of science to man’s social life, to politics.

Ludwig von Mises 27. February 2017

Nobody can be a great economist who is only an economist – and I am even tempted to add that the economist who is only an economist is likely to become a nuisance if not a positive danger.

Friedrich A. von Hayek 27. February 2017

If we wish to remain human, there is only one way, the way into the open. We must go into the unknown, the uncertain and insecure.

Karl R. Popper 27. February 2017

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.

Heraclitus 27. February 2017

A cultivated mind – I do not mean that of a philosopher, but any mind to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties – finds sources of inexhaustible interest in all that surrounds.

John Stuart Mill 27. February 2017

This much is certain: whoever has once tasted critique will be forever disgusted with all dogmatic chatter which he formerly put up with, because his reason had to have something, but could find nothing better for its support.

Immanuel Kant 27. February 2017