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

Karl Popper

“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary 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
The method of learning by trial and error – of learning from our mistakes – seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practiced by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees, or by men of science.
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Animal Learning Man Mistakes Ourselves Science
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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Existence Man Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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Abandonment God Himself Place Spiritual Theory
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
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
Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Adventure Greatness Man Science Spiritual
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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Deep Destroy Oppression Philosophy Prepare Tolerance
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way

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