Our civilization...has not yet fully recovered from the shock of its birth - the transition from the tribal or 'closed society', with its submission to magical forces, to the 'open society' which sets free the critical powers of man. - Karl Popper Quotes
Our civilization...has not yet fully recovered from the shock of its birth - the transition from the tribal or 'closed society', with its submission to magical forces, to the 'open society' which sets free the critical powers of man. Karl Popper
 

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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

Karl Popper

 Love
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.

Karl Popper

 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

Karl Popper

 Theory
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.

Karl Popper

 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

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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.

Karl Popper

 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.

Karl Popper

 Happiness
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

Karl Popper

 
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.

Karl Popper

 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 them… 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 them… 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

 Tolerance
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