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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

Karl Popper

We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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Fate Ourselves Philosophy Success
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer.
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Fine Perfection Theory World
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
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 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
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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Politics Right Science Weakness
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Argument Man Philosophy Science
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Greatness Home Man Philosophy Soul Spiritual Wisdom World
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

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

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