I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
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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In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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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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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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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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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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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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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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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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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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