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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

Karl Popper

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
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
Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Adventure Greatness Man Science Spiritual
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
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
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
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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
It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.
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Achieve Peace Simplicity Weapon World
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 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
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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Politics Right Science Weakness

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