The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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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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In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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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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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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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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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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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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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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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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