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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.

Karl Popper

“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
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
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
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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Crime Duty Moral Myself Philosophy Simplicity Sin
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 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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Independent Mindset Science
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
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Freedom Philosophy Reason Security
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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Quiet Science Simplicity Yourself
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
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
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

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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