Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
KARL POPPERIt 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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Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
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Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational criticism, and self-criticism.
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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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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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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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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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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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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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We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians.
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The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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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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In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.
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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.
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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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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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The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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