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We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell - Karl Popper Quotes

We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell

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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. - Karl Popper Quotes

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

Austrian Philosopher Earth

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve - Karl Popper Quotes

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. - Karl Popper Quotes

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Austrian Philosopher

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure - Karl Popper Quotes

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. - Karl Popper Quotes

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Austrian Philosopher Speech

Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle / the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative. - Karl Popper Quotes

Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle / the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths - Karl Popper Quotes

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. - Karl Popper Quotes

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Austrian Philosopher

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, 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 themÃ¢â¬Â¦ We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal. - Karl Popper Quotes

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, 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 themÃ¢â¬Â¦ We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.

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