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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

Karl Popper

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
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
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
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
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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Deep Difference Equality Ourselves Philosophy
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Greatness Home Man Philosophy Soul Spiritual Wisdom World
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.
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Ability Democracy Freedom
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory

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