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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

Karl Popper

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
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
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
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
He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test and that they can be regarded as finally verified retires from the game.
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Call Decision Game Himself Science
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
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all.
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Avoid Demand Greatness Happiness Philosophy Prayer Suffering
If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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Quiet Science Simplicity Yourself
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
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
In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Important Philosophy Result
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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Book Deep Learning Moment

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