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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

Karl Popper

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
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.
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Crime Duty Moral Myself Philosophy Simplicity Sin
It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.
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Achieve Peace Simplicity Weapon World
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
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
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell 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
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
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

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