Quotes from The Fatal Conceit — Friedrich Hayek
1899–1992 Austria
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Our moral traditions, like many other aspects of our culture, developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
The Fatal Conceit (1988)
Socialism has taught many people that they possess claims irrespective of performance, irrespective of participation. In the light of the morals that produced the extended order of civilisation, socialists in fact incite people to break the law.
The Fatal Conceit (1988)
Like other traditions, the tradition of reason is learnt, not innate. It too lies between instinct and reason; and the question of the real reasonableness and truth of this tradition of proclaimed reason and truth must now also scrupulously be examined.
The Fatal Conceit (1988)
It is no accident that many abstract rules, such as those treating individual responsibility and several property, are associated with economics. Economics has from its origins been concerned with how an extended order of human interaction comes into existence through a process of variation, winnowing and sifting far surpassing our vision or our capacity to design.
The Fatal Conceit (1988)