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Karl Popper

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
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
I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
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Hate Love Myself Philosophy Teaching
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
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
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
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Book Deep Learning Moment
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
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

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