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In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.

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
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it.
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Help Man Nature Ourselves
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
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
We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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Fate Ourselves Philosophy Success
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 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
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
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
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
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
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way

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