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Own Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek
- The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
- The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who…
- What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own…
- Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and…
- It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations.…
- Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
- Independence of mind or strength of character is rarely found among those who cannot be confident that they will make their way by their own…
- If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who…
- It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's…
- A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for…
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