If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
KARL POPPER“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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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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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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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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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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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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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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In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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History has no meaning.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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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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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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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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