No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
KARL POPPERTheology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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All life is problem-solving.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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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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What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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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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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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History has no meaning.
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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer.
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The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
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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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