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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.

Karl Popper

“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.
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Believe Important Philosophy Truth
If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
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Quiet Science Simplicity Yourself
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.
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Argument Progress Victory Win
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
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
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.
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Himself Privilege Responsibility Special Study
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.
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Art Science Simplicity
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
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
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Deep Moral Need Politics
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
The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.
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Future History Necessary Ourselves
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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Fine Perfection Theory World
History has no meaning.
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History One Liner
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
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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Politics Right Science Weakness
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but hell.

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