“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
KARL POPPERNo 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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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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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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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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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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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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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
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We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it.
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