If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay claim to a monopoly of creative effort... then we must not be surprised if society, as such, ceases to function as a creative force.
"Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, "What is 'Social'? - What Does it Mean" (ch. 17), 1967.
