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Karl Popper

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
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
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
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
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
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
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
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
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
He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test and that they can be regarded as finally verified retires from the game.
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Call Decision Game Himself Science
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
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
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself

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