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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.

Karl Popper

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
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Freedom Philosophy Reason Security
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Greatness Home Man Philosophy Soul Spiritual Wisdom World
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
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
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
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
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
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
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
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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Achieve Peace Simplicity Weapon World
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
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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Believe Choice Freedom Lost Philosophy Prepare Thinking Victory Wrong
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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