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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.

Karl Popper

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
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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Philosophy Reality Science Speak
Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all.
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Avoid Demand Greatness Happiness Philosophy Prayer Suffering
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
The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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Easy Hard Lost Philosophy Simplicity Truth
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
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
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
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
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
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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Independent Mindset Science
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
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

The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.

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