Quotation of the Day from Cafe Hayek

Quotation of the Day…

by Don Boudreaux on October 11, 2011

in Scientism

… is from page 248 of Will Durant’s 1957 book The Reformation; here, Durant summarizes a theme from William of Ockham:

How much nonsense is talked or written by mistaking ideas for things, abstractions for realities!

Source:  Cafe Hayek