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

Karl Popper

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
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
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
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
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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Philosophy Reality Science Speak
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
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 simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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Easy Hard Lost Philosophy Simplicity Truth
Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all.
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Avoid Demand Greatness Happiness Philosophy Prayer Suffering
The method of learning by trial and error – of learning from our mistakes – seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practiced by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees, or by men of science.
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Animal Learning Man Mistakes Ourselves Science
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
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
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
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
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

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