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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.

Karl Popper

Great men may make great mistakes.
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Greatness Men Mistake One Liner
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
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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Hate Love Myself Philosophy Teaching
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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Law Philosophy Theory
He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test and that they can be regarded as finally verified retires from the game.
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Call Decision Game Himself Science
We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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Fate Ourselves Philosophy Success
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
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
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
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 way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
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
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy 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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