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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

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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Philosophy Respect Search Truth
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
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
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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Fine Perfection Theory World
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
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
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
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
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
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics

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