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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.

Karl Popper

The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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Philosophy Reality Science Speak
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
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
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Freedom Philosophy Reason Security
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Greatness Home Man Philosophy Soul Spiritual Wisdom World
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
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
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
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
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
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
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy

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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