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Karl Popper

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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Ability Democracy Freedom
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
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
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Adventure Greatness Man Science Spiritual
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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Easy Hard Lost Philosophy Simplicity Truth
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
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
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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Philosophy Reality Science Speak

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