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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.

Karl Popper

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
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
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Greatness Home Man Philosophy Soul Spiritual Wisdom World
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
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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Animal Learning Man Mistakes Ourselves 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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Believe Choice Freedom Lost Philosophy Prepare Thinking Victory Wrong
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
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
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 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
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.
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Existence Man Philosophy Spiritual

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