… is from page 190 of Richard Posner’s 1995 volume, Overcoming Law:
We all have the weaknesses of our strengths. It is hardly a surprise that people who have powerful intellects tend to have an exaggerated faith in the power of intellect to solve social problems. It is the same perspectival deformity that leads intellectuals to model democracy as a form of intellectual discussion or to set freedom of thought and debate far above economic freedom.
