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In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.

Karl Popper

We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it.
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Help Man Nature Ourselves
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
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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Philosophy Reality Science Speak
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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Law Myself
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
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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Avoid Demand Greatness Happiness Philosophy Prayer Suffering
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Important Philosophy Result
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
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

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