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… is from page 262 of F.A. Hayek’s insightful 1957 paper “What is ‘Social’? What Does It Mean?” as this paper appears as chapter nineteen of Essays on Liberalism and the Economy [2] (2022), which is volume 18 (expertly edited by Paul Lewis), of The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek [3]:
True service to the social concept is not rendered by the imposition of absolute authority or leadership, nor does it even consist of common endeavor towards a common aim, but rather of the contribution that each and every one of us makes to a process which is greater than any one of us, from which there constantly emerges something new, something unforeseen, and which can flourish only in freedom.