The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
KARL POPPERThe wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians.
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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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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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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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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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In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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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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