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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.

Karl Popper

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
KARL POPPER

Argument Man Philosophy Science
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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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Avoid Demand Greatness Happiness Philosophy Prayer Suffering
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
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
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
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
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
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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Achieve Peace Simplicity Weapon World
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it.
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Help Man Nature Ourselves
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy

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