“(a) Nationalism, in the form of the historicist idea that the state is the incarnation of the Spirit (or now, of the Blood) of the state-creating nation (or race); one chosen nation (now, the chosen race) is destined for world… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Nationalism appeals to our tribal instincts, to passion and to prejudice, and to our nostalgic desire to be relieved from the strain of individual responsibility which it attempts to replace by a collective or group responsibility. It is in keeping… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Most of us, it seems, have a strong inclination to accept the peculiarities of our social environment as if they were ‘natural’.” — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“The empirical basis of objective science has thus nothing ‘absolute’ about it.4 Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Should you ever intend to dull the wits of a young man and to incapacitate his brains for any kind of thought whatever, then… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Historically, all ethics undoubtedly begin with religion; but I do not now deal with historical questions. I do not ask who was the first… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Society and the individual are thus interdependent. The one owes its existence to the other. Society owes its existence to human nature, and especially… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“All political ideals, that of making the people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to impose our… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“There is only one further use of violence in political quarrels which I should consider justified. I mean the resistance, once democracy has been… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“The fascist appeal to ‘human nature’ is to our passions, to our collectivist mystical needs, to ‘man the unknown’. Adopting Hegel’s words just quoted,… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all; and further,… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“According to this conception, the ultimate causes of all social changes and political revolutions are not increasing insight into justice; they are to be… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“(a) Nationalism, in the form of the historicist idea that the state is the incarnation of the Spirit (or now, of the Blood) of… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“What we should do, I suggest, is to give up the idea of ultimate sources of knowledge, and admit that all knowledge is human;… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“What a monument of human smallness is this idea of the philosopher king. What a contrast between it and the simplicity of humaneness of… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
