What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
KARL POPPERIt 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.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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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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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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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.
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All life is problem-solving.
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History has no meaning.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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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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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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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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