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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

Karl Popper

All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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
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
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
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
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
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.
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Crime Duty Moral Myself Philosophy Simplicity Sin
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
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Important Philosophy Result
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity

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