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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 which the majority have reached.

Friedrich August von Hayek

By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Advanced Majority Point Views
Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.
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Input Thinking Time
Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Danger Doubt Eye
If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve.
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Philosophy Prejudice Psychology
Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success
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Continuing Errors Men
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.
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Civilization Opportunity Pride
Without a theory the facts are silent.
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Facts Silent Theory
When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
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Democracy Politics Power
Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
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Conservatism Conserves Good
We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately “create the future of mankind.” This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems
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Finals Mankind Study Years
It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with which they fit into his general conceptions, into the picture of the world which he regards as modern or advanced.
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Ideas Judging Philosophy
Liberty”’.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
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Coercion Liberty Men
We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
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Civilisation History Realising
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
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Freedom Generation Government Our
I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term “social justice.
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Greatest Justice Men Services Writer
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
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Essentials Liberty Wish