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

Karl Popper

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
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
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
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
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
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
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
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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Philosophy Respect Search Truth
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
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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Deep Difference Equality Ourselves Philosophy

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