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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.

The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

Ludwig von Mises
Society, Finals, Movement
Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.106, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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

Ludwig von Mises
Ego, Society, Individual
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.39, VM eBooks

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.

Ludwig von Mises
Society, Events, Analysis
Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

Ludwig von Mises
Society, Scarcity, Natural
Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived from peaceful cooperation and division of labor are universal.

Ludwig von Mises
Division Of Labor, Peaceful, Society
Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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.

Ludwig von Mises
Progress, Society, Encounters
Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

Ludwig von Mises
Society, Fields, Events

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