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.
KARL POPPERAll life is problem-solving.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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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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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.
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Great men may make great mistakes.
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I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!
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History has no meaning.
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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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All life is problem-solving.
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We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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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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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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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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