"I wish neither to deny reason the power to improve norms and institutions nor even to insist that it is incapable of …"

"Our moral traditions, like many other aspects of our culture, developed concurrently with our reason, not as its prod…"

"It is no accident that many abstract rules, such as those treating individual responsibility and several property, ar…"

"Information-gathering institutions such as the market enable us to use such dispersed and unsurveyable knowledge to f…"

"This evolution [of extended order] came about, then, through the spreading of new practices by a process of transmiss…"

"Part of our present difficulty is that we must constantly adjust our lives, our thoughts and our emotions, in order t…"

"It is true that the greater part of our daily lives, and the pursuit of most occupations, give little satisfaction to…"

"The evolution of rules was far from unhindered, since the powers enforcing the rules generally resisted rather than a…"

"Just as instinct is older than custom and tradition, so then are the latter older than reason: custom and tradition s…"

"To understand our civilisation, one must appreciate that the extended order resulted not from human design or intenti…"