It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.
KARL POPPERHistory has no meaning.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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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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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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All life is problem-solving.
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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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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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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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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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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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