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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

Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
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
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
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
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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Easy Hard Lost Philosophy Simplicity Truth
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
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
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
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
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
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
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Argument Man Philosophy Science
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics

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