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"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."
Author: Ludwig von Mises
About: Psychological Subjects
"The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries."
Author: Arthur Koestler
About: Psychological Subjects
"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 closed." This complacent conclusion shows in what the achievement of the innovator consists: he accomplishes what other people believe to be unthinkable and unfeasible."
Author: Ludwig von Mises
About: Psychological Subjects
"Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that which the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant."
Author: F.a. Hayek
About: Psychological Subjects
"...it is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone."
Author: F.a. Hayek
About: Psychological Subjects
"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."
Author: Ludwig von Mises
About: Psychological Subjects
"Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong."
Author: F.a. Hayek
About: Psychological Subjects
"The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know."
Author: Arthur Koestler
About: Psychological Subjects
"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."
Author: Ludwig von Mises
About: Psychological Subjects
"Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre."
Author: Walter Lippmann
About: Psychological Subjects
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