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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

Karl Popper

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
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
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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
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
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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Believe Choice Freedom Lost Philosophy Prepare Thinking Victory Wrong
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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Himself Privilege Responsibility Special Study
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
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
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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Independent Mindset Science
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
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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Philosophy Respect Search Truth
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

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