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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.

Karl Popper

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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.
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Ability Democracy Freedom
The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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Abandonment God Himself Place Spiritual Theory
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
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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Himself Privilege Responsibility Special Study
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
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
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Adventure Greatness Man Science Spiritual
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
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory

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