All life is problem-solving.
KARL POPPERAll life is problem-solving.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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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.
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Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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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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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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No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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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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“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational criticism, and self-criticism.
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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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It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.
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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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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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