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It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

Karl Popper

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
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
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Believe Choice Freedom Lost Philosophy Prepare Thinking Victory Wrong
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
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
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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Deep Destroy Oppression Philosophy Prepare Tolerance
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 essential feature of dualist-interactionism is that the mind and brain are independent entities and that they interact by quantum physics.
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Independent Mindset Science
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
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
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test and that they can be regarded as finally verified retires from the game.
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Call Decision Game Himself Science

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

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