The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
KARL POPPERWe 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.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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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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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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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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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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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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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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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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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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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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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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All life is problem-solving.
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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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