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The game of science is, in principle, without end.

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 aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
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
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 rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Argument Man Philosophy Science
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 would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
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
It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.
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Existence Man Philosophy Spiritual
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 method of learning by trial and error – of learning from our mistakes – seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practiced by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees, or by men of science.
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Animal Learning Man Mistakes Ourselves Science

The game of science is, in principle, without end.

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