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

Karl Popper

“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
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
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
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
The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.
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Ability Democracy Freedom
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
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
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
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
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
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
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
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
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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Deep Difference Equality Ourselves Philosophy
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
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
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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Book Deep Learning Moment
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
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
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win

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