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Reason and action are congener...

Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.

Ludwig von Mises 577 quotes

It is impossible to describe a...

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.

Ludwig von Mises 577 quotes

Science does not give us absol...

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.

Ludwig von Mises 577 quotes

Society cannot contribute anyt...

Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

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Education rears disciples, imi...

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

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Facts per se can neither prove...

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

Ludwig von Mises 577 quotes

In the world of reality, life,...

In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.

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The class of those who have th...

The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.

Ludwig von Mises 577 quotes

To illustrate the difference b...

To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even imagine that any improvement is possible, we need only refer to a passage in Engel's most famous book. Here, in 1878, Engels apodictically announced that military weapons are 'now so perfected that no further progress of any revolutionizing influence is any longer possible.' Henceforth 'all further [technological] progress is by and large indifferent for land warfare. The age of evolution is in this regard essentially

Ludwig von Mises 577 quotes

It is the worst of all superst...

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

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Reason's biological function i...

Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.

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Reason is the main resource of...

Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

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Scientific criticism has no no...

Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

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Each epoch has found in the Go...

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

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The prevailing legal and moral...

The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.

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Human civilization is not some...

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

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The philosophy called individu...

The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

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Society is joint action and co...

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

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Society is only possible on th...

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

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Progress cannot be organized....

Progress cannot be organized.

Ludwig von Mises 577 quotes

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