Truth can sometimes be harmful...(talk.cpunks.truth)

Robert Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Fri May 24 19:00:03 PDT 1996


At 3:24 PM  -0400 5/24/96, blanc wrote:
> 	"We are able to act at all - that is to say, we have the power
> 	to order our conduct in such a way that the ends we desire
> 	can be attained - only because the phenomena of the world
> 	are governed not by arbitrariness, but by laws that we have
> 	the capacity to know something about.  If it were otherwise,
> 	we should be completely at the mercy of forces that we should
> 	be unable to understand."
> 				~ Human Action, Ludwig Von Mises
>
Or, the terse version, from my old .sig:

"Reality is not optional"
                   -- Thomas Sowell

;-).

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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