The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
KARL POPPERGreat men may make great mistakes.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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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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The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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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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And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational criticism, and self-criticism.
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In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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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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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all.
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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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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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We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians.
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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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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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History has no meaning.
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All life is problem-solving.
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