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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.

Karl Popper

If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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Break Greatness Men Ourselves Survive
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
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
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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Achieve Peace Simplicity Weapon World
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
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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Philosophy Respect Search Truth
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 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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Help Man Nature Ourselves
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Greatness Home Man Philosophy Soul Spiritual Wisdom World
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
The game of science is, in principle, without end.
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End Game One Liner Principle Science
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.
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Adventure Greatness Man Science Spiritual
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.
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One Liner Philosophy Theory

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