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64 Quotes for 'Ludwig Von Mises' in the Database.
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Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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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 something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
Topic: Society
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The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.
Topic: Society
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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 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.
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The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.
Topic: Society
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world.
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There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.
Topic: Society
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The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.
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Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.
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