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

Karl Popper

I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
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Hate Love Myself Philosophy Teaching
The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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Abandonment God Himself Place Spiritual Theory
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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
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
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all.
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Avoid Demand Greatness Happiness Philosophy Prayer Suffering
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
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
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

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