Conscience Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

“Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.”

Friedrich August von Hayek

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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those…

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By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point…

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Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

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Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them…

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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…

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Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal…

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We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic…

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The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the…

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The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of…

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The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

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[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most…

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