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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Karl Popper

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
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Freedom Philosophy Reason Security
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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Easy Hard Lost Philosophy Simplicity Truth
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
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
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 future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
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
He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test and that they can be regarded as finally verified retires from the game.
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Call Decision Game Himself Science
The essential feature of dualist-interactionism is that the mind and brain are independent entities and that they interact by quantum physics.
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Independent Mindset Science
We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it.
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Help Man Nature Ourselves
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics

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