The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
KARL POPPER
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.
More Karl Popper Quotes
-
-
All life is problem-solving.
KARL POPPER -
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.
KARL POPPER -
-
If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
KARL POPPER -
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
KARL POPPER -
-
-
Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
KARL POPPER -
The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
KARL POPPER -
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.
KARL POPPER -
The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
KARL POPPER -
It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.
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.
KARL POPPER -
-
