Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 354 of Hayek’s profound January 1970 lecture at the University of Salzburg, “The Errors of Constructivism,” as a translation of this lecture is reprinted in the 2014 collection, The Market and Other Orders (Bruce Caldwell, ed.), of some of F.A. Hayek’s essays on spontaneous-ordering forces:

The picture of man as a being who, thanks to his reason, can rise above the values of his civilization, in order to judge it from the outside, or from a higher point of view, is an illusion. All we can ever do is to confront one part with the other parts.