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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

What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
KARL POPPER

Deep Moral Need Politics
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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Existence Man Philosophy Spiritual
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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Politics Right Science Weakness
The method of learning by trial and error – of learning from our mistakes – seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practiced by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees, or by men of science.
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Animal Learning Man Mistakes Ourselves Science
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
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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Fine Perfection Theory World
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Nature Promise
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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Ability Democracy Freedom
If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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Quiet Science Simplicity Yourself
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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Freedom Philosophy Reason Security
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
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
The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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Abandonment God Himself Place Spiritual Theory
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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Call Decision Game Himself Science

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

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