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In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

Karl Popper

What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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Himself Privilege Responsibility Special Study
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
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
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 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 essential feature of dualist-interactionism is that the mind and brain are independent entities and that they interact by quantum physics.
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Independent Mindset Science
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Hell Philosophy
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
If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
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Deep Destroy Oppression Philosophy Prepare Tolerance
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
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

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

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