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

Karl Popper

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
KARL POPPER

Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law 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
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
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
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
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
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
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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
We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it.
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Help Man Nature Ourselves
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
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
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

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