What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
KARL POPPERAll life is problem-solving.
More Karl Popper Quotes
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We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it.
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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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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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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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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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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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History has no meaning.
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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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It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
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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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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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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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In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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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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