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Karl Popper

In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Important Philosophy Result
He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test and that they can be regarded as finally verified retires from the game.
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Call Decision Game Himself Science
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
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 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
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
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
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
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
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
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
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy

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