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The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.

Karl Popper

Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Argument Man Philosophy Science
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
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Book Deep Learning Moment
It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.
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Achieve Peace Simplicity Weapon World
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Adventure Greatness Man Science Spiritual
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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Break Greatness Men Ourselves Survive
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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Deep Difference Equality Ourselves Philosophy
It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.
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Existence Man Philosophy Spiritual
If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
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Deep Destroy Oppression Philosophy Prepare Tolerance
In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Important Philosophy Result
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science

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