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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

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
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
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
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
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
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
I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
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Hate Love Myself Philosophy Teaching
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
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
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
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
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
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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Himself Privilege Responsibility Special Study
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

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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