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.
KARL POPPERThose who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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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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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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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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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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All life is problem-solving.
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The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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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
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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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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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If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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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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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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