The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
KARL POPPERWhat we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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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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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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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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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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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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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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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.
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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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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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