The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
KARL POPPER“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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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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The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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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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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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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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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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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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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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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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It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.
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History has no meaning.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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