Great men may make great mistakes.
KARL POPPER“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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History has no meaning.
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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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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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The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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All life is problem-solving.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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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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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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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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