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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.

Karl Popper

Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
KARL POPPER

Deep Moral Need Politics
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
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
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
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
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
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Greatness Home Man Philosophy Soul Spiritual Wisdom World
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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Crime Duty Moral Myself Philosophy Simplicity Sin
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
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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
We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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Fate Ourselves Philosophy Success
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy

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