“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
KARL POPPERI hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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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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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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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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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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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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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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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 game of science is, in principle, without end.
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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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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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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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