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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.

Karl Popper

We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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Fate Ourselves Philosophy Success
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
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
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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Impossible Philosophy Remember Speak Yourself
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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Philosophy Respect Search Truth
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
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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Help Man Nature Ourselves
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
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

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.

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