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Karl Popper

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
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
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
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
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 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
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
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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
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
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
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
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 all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians.
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Politics Right Science Weakness

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