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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.

Karl Popper

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
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
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
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
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
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
It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
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Believe Choice Freedom Lost Philosophy Prepare Thinking Victory Wrong
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
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
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
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
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

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