{"text":"Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have burned ourselves. For this rough teacher, I should like, if possible, to substitute a more gentle one. I mean Foresight. For this purpose I shall examine the consequences of certain economical phenomena, by placing in opposition to each other those which are seen, and those which are not seen.","author":"Frédéric Bastiat","tags":["anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","collectivism","economics","fallacy","freedom","government","keynesian","libertarian","liberty","logic","politics","reason","self-knowledge","statism","taxation","theft","unseen","voluntaryism"],"id":72246,"author_id":"Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Bastiat"}