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"Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
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"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."
"It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide."
"The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion."
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers."
"We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium."
"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom."
"We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things."
"Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order."
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